musings on leadership in ministry
This weekend is the 10th Crossover Festival. Crossover is a brilliant event and I’ve been proud to be part of it. But this year I’ve not been involved. After the last event I felt it was time to step back and to allow others to bring their ideas and dreams to the event. I have Read More …
I don’t get it. 42 days without charge seems like a very very long time. The UN Declaration of Human Rights states: Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. Article 7. All are equal Read More …
On Friday I spent the morning at a meeting of Christian Youth Workers who are discussing setting up a network. To help us think about what the network should be and how we could describe it Neil Pratt from ICC led us through a discussion on ‘what is Christian Youth Work?’. I’ve always been a Read More …
BBC 4 has just shown an excellent exploration and discussion of childhood as part of the Child of Our Time series which is following a cohort of children from birth until age 20. Tonight’s discussion topics ranged from ‘play’ and ‘risk’ to ‘communication’ between adults and children and between children and ‘how time is spent’ Read More …
The National Youth Agency (England) have just published an interim report from a study into Youth Worker’s attitudes to Social Networking. The project blog is here. Not surprisingly only 35% of youth workers felt able to help young people take advantage of the opportunities of Social Networking as opposed to 53% who felt they should Read More …
A while ago I posted about Walk the Line, the superb bio-pic of Johnny Cash. Well worth a watch, even if you think you don’t like Cash’s music. I’ve also posted about ‘The Wanderer’, his stunning song on the U2 album Zooropa. BBC 4 ran a series of programmes the other night on Cash including Read More …
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