musings on leadership in ministry
Do you ever notice that when you are focusing on an idea, a concept or a task that resources appear. A blog post, a tweet, a book, a newspaper article, a movie or a conversation somehow relates to your thoughts. Sometimes it happens the other way around and something inspires you to focus on something Read More …
A Safe Place? When: Saturday 16th October 2010, 10am – 4pm Where: The Atholl Centre, Pitlochry Tickets: £12.50 (£9 concession) – including lunch How can the church be a nurturing community for people with mental health problems? This day seminar is for anyone who wants to explore openly the issues facing those with mental health Read More …
Today the Chief Inspector of Constabulary warned that there should be no cut in spending on police time to deal with anti-social behaviour. When asked who should deal with anti-social behaviour the majority of people said the police. It has also been reported today that early intervention is the key to preventing anti-social behaviour… But Read More …
Now a regular on the arts scene, the 4th Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival has grown to become one of Scotland’s most valued cultural events with nearly 200 exciting and affordable events taking place across the country from 1-24 October to help challenge attitudes towards mental health through the arts. See what’s on Read More …
HT to Steven
I’ve just watched David Miliband’s speech launching his bid to be Labour leader. He seems like a good guy. He said all the right things. Hope, justice, equality… But I wasn’t inspired. Sometimes inspiration is as much how you say it as what you say. I’m sitting thinking about a sermon for Sunday. It’s Pentecost, Read More …
We now have a coalition government. To achieve this both parties had to compromise. Compromise is one of those interesting words that can be both positive and negative, mostly depending on the person viewing or making the compromise’s opinion. It can be a noun and a verb. Compromise means: a settlement of differences by mutual Read More …