All Editorial articles – Page 125
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IssuesHow to tell the Easter Story
We asked some of our writers and a few other folks for their favourite ways to help children engage with the Easter story. This isn’t a full session plan, but a few ideas to spice up your meeting times over the Easter period.
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IssuesEaster: Rewriting the story
RECHARGE IS A BIBLE STUDY JUST FOR YOU, TO NURTURE YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. SO STOP, SIT, BREATHE AND READ. THIS MONTH, JENNY BAKER REFLECTS ON THE FAMILIAR EASTER STORY, AND WHAT IT MEANS IN OUR LIVES TODAY
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Blog
Jamie versus Toy: Worry Eater
Possibly one of the weirdest and theologically-dodgy toys we've seen.
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Issues
On The Edge : Reflex Woking
When Clare Strong moved to Woking she was determined to help young people realise and reach their potential. Her baptism of fire began when, in her first week at her new church, she said to her pastor: ‘I have always wanted to do youth work.’ ‘Great,’ he replied, ‘I have two groups; you can take the older one.’ That Wednesday evening she walked into a room of 30-40 young people from the local estate and began her ministry.
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Issues
On The Edge: Oneness
Ian has been doing youth work on the Isle of Wight since 1999. Financial and time constraints meant a trip across the Solent wasn’t possible so a phone call had to suffice.
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Edge of Tomorrow
In the near future, the Earth has been invaded by a seemingly unstoppable extra-terrestrial enemy who can reset time and know the future. Using this ability they are quickly destroying the world’s army that has united to stand against them. During the final assault, cowardly PR man Cage (Tom Cruise) finds himself bestowed with the ability to experience the same day over and over again.
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IssuesYou, the Future and Generation Edge
If you don’t shape the future, someone else’s vision of the future will reshape you, your youth work and your city.
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On the Edge
An on-the-ground look at a detached youth work project. This month: Anne Calver meets founder of street dance crew Stance, Grace Tween.
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Editorial
I tried some ‘prophetic art’ with my children’s group recently (stay with me on this one). I know that’s an ambitious way of describing it, but in reality it’s just giving the children some space to be alone with God and asking them to draw a picture of what they were thinking about.
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IssuesEditorial
The sharp-eyed among you will notice that we have a cover image that seems to contradict an article from our last edition. In our last magazine, Carl Beech wrote his take on why boys might not engage with Church as we wish they would. This time Margaret Pritchard Houston, in her feature on gender, takes a different view on some of the same issues. It’s not a response or an attempt to disprove Carl, but two different approaches to the same theme. We’re very happy with this: we’re a magazine not a text book, and we want to make space for people to have different views, and for you to read and think about the articles, reaching your own conclusions.
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Editorial
As a 20-something Christian who studied youth ministry, approximately 80 per cent of my waking hours are spent on stag dos, travelling to weddings, getting ready for weddings or attending weddings. The three main highlights of this year’s wedding season were: my little brother rapping during our best man speech at our other brother’s wedding, Guvna B dancing to his own song at his own wedding, and doing a wedding talk based almost exclusively on the board game Mouse Trap
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Editorial
I am the proud owner of a fancy iPod speaker, not dissimilar in looks to a black Lego brick, with a sleek and streamlined exterior and four round buttons on top. It’s lovely. And it works pretty well, except that when it’s plugged in it emits the kind of high-pitched noise that is surely only designed for dogs to hear. Unfortunately for me, my ears are still so youthful that they pick up this particular frequency. Excellent.
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IssuesEditorial
I have had some exceptional pets in my time. First there was Jasmini the hamster. The name Jasmin (inspired by Aladdin, of course) wasn’t quite enough – an extra ‘i’ added a certain je ne sais quoi, or so my nine year-old-self thought. Then there was Bobo. A rather large and enthusiastic hamster, Bobo made a break for it and ran away from home, never to be found again. Finally there was Pepsi, a beautiful sleek black and white little mouse, who met an unfortunate end involving some maggots (don’t ask).
