All Editorial articles – Page 151
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IssuesPilgrimage
Our regular resource for incorporating spiritual practices in your work with children, from Ian Adams and Carolyn Edwards
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IssuesRe-charge: Prayers of Place
Re-charge is a Bible study just for you, to nurture your own relationship with god. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Gerard Kelly reflects on kingdom prayers.
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Issues‘I had three placements in three years'
Over the course of three years, I had three youth work placements as part of my youth work degree. These gave me three very different experiences. I felt like one of those toys that can be stretched and pulled in all sorts of different directions. At its worst, I wanted to quit, disappear and leave youth ministry. At its best, I felt affirmed, talented and confident in my role as a youth worker.
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TV Talk Points
Ever wondered what your teenagers are watching on TV? Youthwork’s screen maestro Tom Wade brings us up-to-date and provides some handy talking points to get your young people thinking about what they are viewing.
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BlogThe ponderings of a Youth worker...
Laura Haddow asks: What is it about the end of the year that inevitably makes you become all reflective?
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IssuesYouth and Porn
A campaign part-launched by Youthwork magazine is calling on the government to tackle the issues that allow millions of children and young people to view explicit images online.
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Ready-to-use Reflection: Postures
Sometimes the ways we do church worship can make it seem like all that really matters to God is our brains or our hearts. We say prayers
and sing hymns that are full of truth and theology, or we repeat heartfelt choruses, engaging with a range of emotions. Our bodies are sometimes ignored or forgotten about. Yet God made our physical shape as well as our minds and souls, and the Bible is full of references to different postures used in worship. -
IssuesPoverty and Reading
Former US Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton has highlighted the link between poverty and reading.
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BlogPrayer in Schools
You might have memories of praying at primary school when you were a child: hands together, eyes closed…a short, non-committal prayer by a teacher followed by a drawn-out ‘Aaaaaaaaaamen’ from the whole school. This may still be the case in your local school. Religious education is struggling from a lack of specialist teachers, and a 2010 Ofsted report comments that, while the subject was making positive contributions to areas such as community cohesion, it was contributing little to students’ spiritual development.
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Pre-Written Prayers in Worship
A couple of years ago, we were involved in helping a Baptist church youth group plan a worship service. This was a new initiative and was to be a service planned, led and executed by the young people. We made some suggestions, which they either shot down or ran with. One of the suggestions made was the idea of using a pre-written prayer - what some people might call ‘liturgy’. This led to great debate in the planning group: ‘Do we do pre-written prayers?’
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BlogPreparation for Uni
In this week's Youthwork blog, Rosie Kersys tells us why we need to do more to prepare our young people for university.
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IssuesUnder Pressure
Anxiety and depression in British 15 year-olds has increased by 70 per cent within the last 25 years. The UK also has the highest self-harm rates in Europe; One in ten teenagers deliberately hurts themselves. The impact of this mental health epidemic on you as a youth worker is potentially catastrophic, and yet what is being done to protect you from the risks?
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Youth work problems
Dear Youth Work problems, There’s a church nearby that runs a great youth ministry, but we disagree on some key theological issues. Should we work together or are we better apart? What’s the best way of doing it?
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Youth work problems
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