All Editorial articles – Page 57
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IssuesAbortion: When does life begin?
While abortion has huge social and political implications on the other side of the pond, you might think that it has no real bearing on your youth and children’s ministry. Think again…
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IssuesHell: Do we need to talk to children about eternal damnation?
It seems as if, for many Christians, their understanding of hell is central to their understanding of the biblical narrative. But should we talk to children about it? Can it have a negative impact? John Grayston steps into the fire…
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IssuesThe God of the Old Testament: Is it best to ignore some stories?
How do we approach some of the more difficult Bible passages with our children? Maybe we should sugar-coat them, maybe we should heavily edit them in our retellings, maybe we should just not share them at all. Or maybe we should allow the stories to speak for themselves?
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IssuesChildren and young people on hell
A group of children and young people discuss the topic of hell.
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IssuesChildren and young people on corporal punishment
A group of children and young people discuss corporal punishment.
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IssuesChildren and young people on the God of the Old Testament
Can anyone tell me the story of Noah?Lewis: All of these people were being really nasty to each other so God was about to send a flood but there was one family that was nice and didn’t get involved, and that was Noah’s family. So God told Noah to build ...
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IssuesChildren and young people on other faiths
A group of children and young people discuss other faiths.
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IssuesThe God of the Old Testament: The Conversation
What do you think is the best way to read the Bible with children?Sam Donoghue: Know the kids you’re working with. Things may wash over some kids while others will be traumatised. Everything we know about faith development tells us that the image of God that children acquire now, they ...
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IssuesCorporal Punishment: Are the days of smacking over?
Obviously, OBVIOUSLY, as youth and children’s workers, we don’t resort to corporal punishment when those we work with misbehave, but that might not be true of children and young people’s home lives. So what difference does this make to our work?
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IssuesA final word on some elephants
During one of the conversations we hosted for this issue, the dialogue was so gracious, so full of commonality that we jokingly said: “This is far too nuanced and respectful. We wanted to alienate everybody and now we’re not going to annoy anybody…”
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IssuesMasturbation: The lesser of multiple evils?
Is calling young people to live a masturbation-free life too tough a calling? Can it prevent ‘worse’ sexual sin? Over to Martin Saunders…
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IssuesDo we all worship the same God anyway?
We know that interfaith discussions are important and that we should respect people of all religions. But how should we encourage our children and young people in their own faith, while helping them interact with those of different faiths? Interfaith expert Andrew Smith has some ideas...
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BlogPreaching Competition for Young People in Guildford
We hear a lot about the need for young people’s voices to be heard. On the Premier Youth and Children’s Work blog recently, Jamie Cutteridge talked about the general election and the voice of young people being heard through the ballot box. On a grander scale these things are massively important, but this does leave us with a slight dilemma – how do we do it on a more local and simple level?
