As a kid (and adult too) I had a great love and fascination of Transformers. I still have a huge box of the toys at my parents and the original cartoon series on DVD.
There have been many incarnations of the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons (Gen 2, Armada, Beast Wars, Energon, R.I.D., etc.) and [...]
You can tell I’m on a “study day” today because of the amount of blog posts!
There’s a good article on the rise of teenagers in street gangs on the BBC News Magazine.
“There’s a real power in it, especially if someone has a problem and you deal with it. The camaraderie is unbelievable and is [...]
“A baby boy who was pronounced dead after a heart attack came back to life 30 minutes later as he lay in his grieving parents’ arms.”
There’s no mention of God or Christianity in the article, but it certainly looks like His handiwork to me!
It was possibly not the most subtle thing he could have done, but 17 year old Ryan Florence made a ‘gun’ sign when David Cameron visited his estate, and has caused another huge debate in the media over anti-social behaviour. Click here for the full story.
From the article:
The youth, 17-year-old Ryan Florence, is electronically tagged [...]
There’s a really interesting article on the BBC website about the use of pornography by children and young people. According to the article:
figures obtained by the BBC from Nielsen NetRatings reveal one in four of those aged 12 to 16 who goes online at home looks at sexual images at least once a month. [...]
So I followed this link about a free ipod. Apparently the BBC ran a news item on it and it’s legit. All you have to do is buy, try or participate in one of their offers and sign up some friends to do the same. Unsurprisingly the offers include insurance, sky TV etc. I’m not [...]
I forgot to link to Marko’s post about the top 10 most influential Youth Ministry books when he posted it a couple of weeks ago (so here it is now). Many books I’ve picked up recently have come as recommendations from other bloggers, so it’s well worth checking out the list on his blog including [...]
For those of us who can’t live without a daily dose of caffeine or music, there may be some good news coming up. The current speculation is that you could soon walk into Starbucks, buy a caramel macchiato and download the latest U2 release onto your iPod. Full rumor-mongering here.
Update: On a similar [...]
