The following is a letter I’ve written to the Editor of the MK Citizen in response to a recent article regarding concerns at Oakhill Secure Training Centre:I read with interest your article last week regarding ‘possible abuse’ at Oakhill STC. I am an occasional visitor to Oakhill and have always found it to be an incredibly positive and supportive environment…
On Saturday 23rd October I spent the day in London in the presence of 592 youth workers/leaders/ministers/etc and at least 20 speakers at the first Youthwork Summit: ‘a new kind of youth work event… breaking down old ways of doing things, and finding new ones; listening to a wider range of voices than ever before, from parts of the church…
“perhaps true beauty is something that draws our attention at second glance, once the judgement of a first glance has realised it’s mistake”
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It’s great to see on the Editors Blog that the BBC are trying to redress the balance of negative journalism towards young people by involving 250 schools in a “massive journalism deployment” involving 10,000 young people aged 11-14. Stories that have already been filed include items on social networking, mobile phones, living with cancer, and campaigning on Darfur. Other school…
Some notes and quotes from Church on the Edge: “If Church is not a building you go to but a community you belong to, then when and how that meets can have no boundaries.” “If we assume everyone who comes to Church ‘ought to know what to do’, we shouldn’t be surprised if they don’t stay long.”
Alternative, more provocative title: Brian McLaren in a blouse? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNuSBGa1mLM] “The excerpt is from an episode from the 14th season of E.R. titled ‘Atonement’. A man looking for answers does not find what he needs in a post-modern view of religion.”
So the planet warms and the Kenyans kill their neighbors and we tweet about nothing and hope the servers hold out.Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu – Jeffrey Zeldman
Just a minor diversion – mostly for my own benefit – as I think through our new youth work project. Some notes from Church on the Edge: Purpose: what are we here for? everything else should be measured up against this Values: what is important to us? values are often not what you make up, but are what you observe…
My name is Ricky Rew and I’m addicted to Threadless.I’ve just completed a long overdue update to the Threadless page to add the shirts from my last three orders – another 18 shirts!! The question I’m asked most often is “where do you get your cool/excellent/great/funny t-shirts from?”. The answer, of course, is Threadless. The second most popular question is…
For my Culture, Society & Mission module I’m currently reading Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture by Michael Frost, and thoroughly enjoying it. I’m a slow reader and a quick forgetter – so here, partly for my own reference purspose, are some of the quotes which jumped out at me: “The Christian movement must be the living, breathing promise…