All Editorial articles – Page 149
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IssuesNegative Stereotypes of Young People
Last month we reported that negative stereotypes of young people in the media were harming their job prospects. Young people rarely have a voice in newspapers, magazines, or TV, but when they do, such depictions broadly fit into the following, grossly sensationalised and extreme, categories:
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IssuesSchools work: A new start
Can you remember your first day at secondary school? I recall creeping nervously into the main hall at my new school, looking around for some of my friends from primary school. We were put into forms and trooped out of that cavernous room off to different parts of the building. The next day I got so lost in the school that I ended up being late for registration!
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IssuesSchools’ work: The start of a new year
In the next few issues, we’ll be providing you with assembly outlines to help children explore some more unusual passages from the Bible. By this, I don’t mean we’re going to base a session on the genealogies at the start of 1 Chronicles or try to explain the imagery in Revelation. Rather, there is real value to be found when we go further than the more widely used stories such as David, Daniel, Jonah, the lost son and the Good Samaritan. The Bible is full of rich treasure for children to discover, so let’s open it up to them!
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IssuesPray through the news
Open Doors has launched its annual World Watch List, highlighting the toughest 50 countries to be a Christian. These are the places where beliefs are hidden and where living for Jesus means facing beatings, imprisonment, discrimination and abuse.
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IssuesNorthern Young People
Last month, Labour MP Andy Burnham said that young people in the North-West of England have had it harder than other young people as their peers ‘take the mickey’ when they express ambitions to be a doctor, lawyer or politician.
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IssuesNostalgic TV
A BBC report has suggested that the TV we feel nostalgic about may be the best indicator of our age.
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BlogThe time is now
Things take time. It's been five years since, as then-fairly-new editor of Youthwork magazine, I first expressed a desire to try to publish a magazine for Christian children's leaders, but the timing wasn't quite right. Travelling around, I'd heard many people express a frustration that our magazine was only focussed on teenagers, without really catering for the huge number of Christians who invest in the many under-11s in our churches and communities.
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BlogOlaf the Snowman
The only thing less excusable than going to the cinema to see a Disney film on a Wednesday afternoon by yourself, is going to the cinema to see a Disney film on a Wednesday afternoon by yourself and laughing UNCONTROLLABLY loudly. So it was with me and Frozen.
