A big thanks to the 5,006 people who have downloaded the New City Catechism android app over the past 11 months. It is still on 4,183 devices, so it can’t be that bad.
Backwards compatibility for more apps
Updates to mobile multiply and New City Catechism have been push. The biggest update is that they can now run on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Gingerbread still makes up about 20% of the Android market, so a few people might be happy about this. I have emailed those in the past that have asked me to do this. One guy got back to me saying that he now has an iPhone (doh!) and another lady was very appreciative.
Mobile multiply has also been updated to include a link to the 2013 gathering video, and the pdf resource links that were broken are now fixed.
Like always, these new updates can be also downloaded from this site for side loading onto Kindle devices.
39 more articles
The Australian Daily Prayer app has been updated, along with the website to include the text of the original 39 Articles, along with the preamble. The Android app now has an option where you can jump to any date, so you don’t need to keep moving through the days one at at time.
I have included the 39 Articles pretty much because I read Chapter 4 of Knots Untied by J.C. Ryle, which I also link to next to the text of the 39 Articles. Ryle argues that the 39 Articles and not the prayer book was the basis of doctrine in Church of England. He saw that the 39 Articles should be ranks above the prayer book.
I found this curious as in 1968 Lambeth decided the disentangle the 39 Articles from the prayer book, and not require its ordained ministers to subscribe to them. I also include that link next to the text of the 39 Articles. This is why you can find in Defining Convictions and Decisive Commitments a suggestion that what makes the Anglican church is the prayer book and not the 39 Articles. This is strange as many low Anglican churches I have attended don’t use the prayer book, so I feel I then need to ask: What then makes a low Anglican church Anglican? And I would hope it is based on doctrine and not practice, but which council in the church has decided what doctrines to hold to…? Anyway, I will end this rant here.