Today I started reading Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen for the Worship & Spirituality module at CYM. I’m half-way through which for me is a record (ok, it’s a short book and fairly big text) and so far I’ve found it really inspiring and challenging. I’m looking forward to getting my head around it when brain-capacity allows. I…
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…
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…
Excerpt from an article in the Christian Science Monitor entitled “A legless artist documents the world in 32,000 stares“: A 3-foot-1-inch tall man with no legs propelling himself along by his hands on a skateboard tends to warrant a fair share of attention.People stare.Sometimes they ask questions. Sometimes they make up stories on their own.Montana State University film student Kevin…
Yesterday I lad the Brigade Service at Church on the theme of “A Different Christmas”. We had a quiz based around the following Christmas statistics (source) and then reflected on them and what they say about how we ‘celebrate’ Christmas: £600 million – spent on decorations annually 2 million metres – of fairy lights put up each year 15 hours…
[Welcome to anyone visiting from MK Vineyard Church – please introduce yourself in the comments section below…] This morning, along with my Minster, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation to the MK Vineyard Church about our new Youth Project for Central Bletchley & Fenny Stratford, and inviting them to become partners in the project. We were made very…
Or “How to fly like a superhero – the way you dreamt it would be as a kid” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt692UuRMyg]hat tip to Marko