Mark over at The Grove Is On Fire posted about this article on the Guardian website.
It's a thoughtful post from a school physics teacher about religious students in his classroom struggling to reconcile science and faith - what they see as contradictory approaches to understanding the world. He concludes:
I can't help but feel that a proper science education should equip young people to arrive at their own decisions about what to believe, and ...
So the Positive Images Award winners have been announced. It seems a while ago now that I spent an intense day in London helping to sift through the masses of brilliant entries to pick winners for each category.
Now in their fifth year, the Positive Images Awards shine a spotlight on the great work youth groups and individuals do ...
The following is a short article I wrote that was published in Youth Work Now Magazine (A supplement of Children & Young People Now) last week. In addition to the print copy, it can be found online here.
Good riddance to ContactPoint (more...) ...
On Tuesday I gave a short presentation at Link Up, an event organised by the YES team of Chichester Diocese for those churches working with young people.
My brief was to talk about engaging with young people outside of the church environment - something I've done quite a lot of in my work. As I had very limited time, I outlined ...
Lars Rood has been writing some very honest topics about on his blog recently.
Has latest is 'Why working at a church can be lame'. As someone who is currently employed by a church, I found it pretty interesting! I must point out at this stage that I do love my job. It is good to be critically reflective though and stay aware of ...
Following on from my previous post about the Tinkering School and how creating meaningful experiences for children allows better learning, is this article about the Kolle 37 playpark in Berlin, Germany.
Here at the playground the children have the opportunity to build their own huts, make fire, work in the garden, watch and work with animals or just play. There are different projects in which the children can develop their creativity. They also learn ...
We recently received confirmation that we have been successful in our funding application to Children In Need. The high-profile charity has agreed to support our Launch Pad breakfast club with around £8,000 a-year for three years, to help us continue to provide this vital service.
Launch Pad is a FREE Breakfast Club that runs before school every day during term-time. Children who attend get a healthy nutritious breakfast that includes cereals, toast, ...
These are my youth work, youth ministry, childrens ministry and schools work links for 5th June to 29th June. For more related links, check out my links page
Youth & Policy Journal - Youth and Policy Journal was founded in 1982 to offer a critical space for the discussion of youth policy and youth work theory and practice.
Family ...
A number of interesting events have hit the radar recently for Christian youth and schools workers in the UK. Click the links for more info on each one and maybe I'll see you at one of them?
Schoolswork.co.uk Imagine Event
For Christians who visit and work in schools, this will be a unique opportunity to meet with others involved in schools work around the UK, resourced with new ideas and commissioned to go out and make a difference in the lives of ...
Part of my role for the church here is to develop our partnerships with local schools and I often go in to primary and secondary schools to take assemblies or lessons around particular themes. We have also recently been running a Youth Alpha course at the local Academy (where our church meets on Sunday mornings).
Yesterday, I ...
