Simple Things

I’ve been away.  Some of the time I’ve been on holiday with Ben and Jack in a caravan and the rest I’ve been at V&N, a 4 day residential for teenagers in Pilots. Something struck me about both experiences… Kids like to play. Both the holiday and the camp were low tech. On holiday the Read More …

Pedal for Scotland

Anyone fancy cycling from Glasgow to Edinburgh on 12 September?  I’m thinking about doing the Challenge Ride… Just thinking, but if someone wanted to keep me company… And it’s all in aid of Maggies Centres.

capital gains?

Who knew that reading was so… enlightening! I’m in the final (hopefully) throws of the dissertation and I’m battering away at a couple of sections before editing my findings. The parts getting attention just now are about ‘the Church and social capital’ and ‘youth work strategy’. The social capital discussion has been really interesting.  I Read More …

Heads in the sand?

I’m writing a bit about the institutional church for my dissertation. Everything I’ve read says that the institutional church is: a) declining and b) increasingly irrelevant So, I have two questions. Am I just reading one side of the argument, and if so can you point me in the other direction? If I’m not, and Read More …

what did you vote for?

It’s been a while now since the General Election. The ConDem coalition seems to have settled in and the world hasn’t come to an end, at least not yet. What has been fascinating is the size, speed and range of political and economic reform that the new partnership wants to force through. The criticism of Read More …

booking up

When people say they have booked up for the summer they usually mean that they are off somewhere sunny and warm for a couple of weeks. Well… I’m taking an altogether different approach! Again, sorry for the lack of blogging but deadlines are approaching. In other news, for a bit of a distraction me and Read More …