All Editorial articles – Page 101
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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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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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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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Ready-to-use Discussion: Get Blurred Lucky Lines
They’re the biggest songs of the year, and share one thing in common – the vocal stylings of Pharrell Williams. We’re talking about Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ and Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’, which also share another dubious quality – their lyrics. For each song, play the track and then read out the lyrics and questions below.
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Mark my Words: Spiritual Formation Boarding School
THIS MONTH
Marko travels to New Zealand for 10 days of training youth workers and coaching some youth ministry coaches. Can anyone say ‘Kiwi burgers’? It’s the other white meat. -
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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IssuesDietrich Bonhoeffer: The Youth Worker
We’re all familiar with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s story, but we may not have heard about his time as a youth worker. Youth ministry theologian Andrew Root unpacks one of Bonhoeffer’s sermons and shows how it speaks directly into our faith-banking, adjective-driven, youth ministry culture.
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BlogThe Youth Work Book Club: Walter Wink’s 'The Powers That Be'
Welcome to The Youth Work Book Club. In 2016 CONCRETE formed a theology and youth ministry reading group. The aim of the group is to read something thought provoking every six weeks and meet to reflect on it in light of, specifically urban, youth ministry. The group for this first edition is made up of James Fawcett from CONCRETE, Naomi Luff from XLP and Tim Broadbent from St Mary's, Islington but will be joined by members of the Premier Youthwork team. The first book we read was the Powers That Be by the theologian Walter Wink. What follows is a brief summary of the book and highlights of a conversation about the text. Next month, we’ll be reading The Spiritual City by Phillip Sheldrake. Grab a copy, and get involved.
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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
