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BlogDead Book Society: A Simple Way To Pray
New things are great, but old things can be great too. Youth worker Mark Walley is really keen on books written by dead people (people who are now dead, not who were dead at time of writing), and the youth work wisdom we can glean from them. So each month he will review an old book, and explain why it’s worth your precious time. The only qualification? That the author be deader than CS Lewis. This month’s book: Martin Luther’s A Simple Way To Pray.
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BlogDead Book Society: The Confessions
New things are great, but old things can be great too. Youth worker Mark Walley is really keen on books written by dead people (people who are now dead, not who were dead at time of writing), and the youth work wisdom we can glean from them. So each month he will review an old book, and explain why it’s worth your precious time. The only qualification? That the author be deader than CS Lewis. This month’s book: Augustine’s The Confessions.
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BlogDead Book Society: The Glory of Christ
New things are great, but old things can be great too. Youth worker Mark Walley is really keen on books written by dead people (people who are now dead, not who were dead at time of writing), and the youth work wisdom we can glean from them. So each month he will review an old book, and explain why it’s worth your precious time. The only qualification? That the author be deader than CS Lewis. This month’s book: The Glory of Christ, by John Owen
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BlogDEAD BOOK SOCIETY: ON THE INCARNATION
New things are great, but old things can be great too. Youth worker Mark Walley is really keen on books written by dead people (people who are now dead, not who were dead at time of writing), and the youth work wisdom we can glean from them. So each month he will review an old book, and explain why it’s worth your precious time. The only qualification? That the author be deader than CS Lewis. This month’s book: On The Incarnation by Athanasius.
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BlogThe Youth Work Book Club - The Spiritual City by Phillip Sheldrake
The latest book to be read and discussed by the CONCRETE Theology and Youth Ministry reading group is The Spiritual City: Theology, Spirituality, and the Urban by Philip Sheldrake. The group is made up of James Fawcett from CONCRETE, Naomi Luff from XLP, Tim Broadbent from St Mary, Islington and Tim Carroll from St Andrew’s, Archway. What follows is a brief summary of the book and highlights of a conversation about the text.
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BlogThe Dead Book Society: Pilgrim's Progress
Delving into the archives once again, our resident lover-of-old-books Mark Walley commends John Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress to us, and explains what on earth it might have to do with youth ministry in 2015
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BlogBuilding the Boat
It’s easy to feel negative about youth ministry, especially when our churches do. So what can we do about it? Meg Cannon continues our blog series
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BlogPost-festival blues
Mike Palin provides some tips to help young people thrive in reality after the blessings of summer festivals and camps.
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BlogReady-to-use Games: Old, new, borrowed, blue
Ah weddings: a beautiful commitment of a couple’s love for each other and also a significant income stream for florists, photographers and Premier Inns near motorway junctions. As we’re celebrating the marriage of Premier Youthwork and Premier Childrenswork, it’s a good chance to do a wedding themed column. Don’t worry the games aren’t all about tossing bouquets or cutting cakes but rather they’ll feature something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue
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BlogYOUTH WORK BLOG: Holistic Discipleship
'We need to return to the kind of discipleship which is not about programmes but about apprenticed lives'
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Martin’s extra Yule Blog: Undead space
No, it’s not a blog about intergalactic zombies (although that might have been fun)… today, I want to talk to you about the weirdest week of the year. Boxing Day to New Year’s Eve. Six days each year when we amuse ourselves by coming up with innovative uses for leftover turkey, playing with / breaking / repairing Christmas presents, and watching those second-tier films that weren’t quite good enough to make the Christmas Day schedule. This year though, I want to suggest a way that this time might be put to better use.
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Guest blog: DO WE EDUCATE CHILDREN OUT OF CREATIVITY?
A word from Amy Stock, schools worker and director of schoolswork.co.ukMarch 2013
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Editors’ Blog: A Tale of Two Veggies
Former Premier Childrenswork editors Martin Saunders and Sam Donoghue fight it out over those vegetables you love to hate: Veggietales.
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BlogGuest blog: Where are the men?
Over one million children in the UK are growing up without a father figure, according to a recent report released by the Centre for Social Justice. The report also stated that some of the poorest parts of the country have become ‘men deserts’ because so few primary schools have male teachers.
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BlogThe Youth Work Blog: Digging Deeper into Prayer
In response to the call for a youth ministry revolution, Claire Farley asks some tough questions about youth ministry, and looks for the answers in prayer.
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Blog Responses to Digital Etiquette
We asked some of our bloggers to respond to this month’s Digital Etiquette feature. Here’s what they had to say…
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BlogSocial Media Blackout
Last weekend young people and youth workers across the country joined Open Doors Youth to embark on a sponsored 48-hour digital media fast: two whole days without Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Spotify and any other online activity. People were encouraged to bring hope to the Middle East by joining the blackout, making a big noise for persecuted Christians by keeping quiet.
