Words from my sermons of 2009
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by Henrik Korslind in Featured Articles, Theology
As the end of this year is getting close, I have been spending some time summarizing 2009, especially in regards to my work in Korskyrkan, Uppsala. It all began a few weeks ago as I started thinking about what I have been teaching. What are the main elements of my sermons? 65000+ words later. What words have I been speaking? Has it been words that give life and focus on the important things of faith?
I ended up doing a lot of copy and paste, putting all the sermons in one long text. I surfed the web and goggled for a tool that would help me to create some kind of a word-cloud (like tag clouds on blogs). It turns out that there actually is a page called Wordle that does exactly that. With Wordle you can create word clouds from websites and texts, with different options (fonts, colors, positions and more).
So what was the result? Not exact science I guess, but pretty interesting! (Words like “Guds rike” and “Helig Ande” are difficult to see in this picture, since they are separate words but still belong together.)
