leadership in ministry
There is a meme bouncing around Facebook at the moment… The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what albums Read More …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
HT to Steven
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 …