All Issues articles – Page 50
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IssuesJamie vs. Toy: Saggo the Sorgenfresser
‘Saggo’ is a ‘Sorgenfresser’ (no prizes for guessing its country of origin) which means ‘worry eater,’ (or so I’m told, my German is sketchy at best) ...
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Young People’s Search for Work Is ‘A Job In Itself’
A report by the Joseph Roundtree Foundation has revealed the difficult task faced by young people looking for employment. The report, released at a time where over one million young people in the UK are out of work, highlighted that some vacancies closed within hours of being advertised.
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: It’s a wonderful life
Clip: The clip starts at 1:27:03 and lasts until 1:39:09.
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IssuesYouth unemployment and isolation
This month the Office for National Statistics revealed that unemployment rates in the UK have fallen by 58,000 to an estimated 1.91 million. Alarmingly however, the rate of unemployment among young people aged 16-24 has risen by 30,000 to a staggering 764,000.
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IssuesQ&A: Ishmael
It’s hard to imagine the world of children’s work without Ishmael. From his early days in a punk band, ‘Ish’ took over children’s work at Spring Harvest in the early 80s and has almost been an ever-present since with his trademark worship-rock style. Jamie Cutteridge caught up with him to reflect on the last 35 years.
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IssuesPremier Youthwork investigates...Nitrous Oxide
You don’t have to spend too much time in a park or street at the moment to find tiny, empty canisters lying around. You may not even notice them, but once you’ve spotted one, you’ll realise they’re everywhere. Nitrous oxide canisters - laughing gas or hippie crack (as the alarmist media would call it) - seems to be 2015’s social drug of choice.
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IssuesPremier Youthwork Investigates...Internships
Internships are everywhere at the moment: on every job site, in most companies and even in many churches. Internships are a great way for a young person to gain necessary skills and experience, and an ‘in’ to the industry they are seeking to work in. They are also hugely beneficial for employers, providing entry-level workers at minimal cost.
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Premier Youthwork Investigates… New social media
We’ve all seen a heap of theological treaties on familiar social media: what would Jesus tweet? Do our Facebook profiles reflect the real us? How airbrushed are our Instagram selfies? But what about some of the newer, more unknown social media platforms? How are we, as youth workers, meant to respond to apps like Periscope and Snapchat. How can we protect our young people from their potential danger?
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IssuesPremier Youthwork Investigates… Selfies
Selfies, once again, hit the news recently. Not because Kim Kardashian posted another naked picture, or because Obama was papped with celebrity friends, but because of a Brit called Ben Innes. Ben was on a flight to Cairo when his plane was hijacked by a man in an explosive vest. Instead of cowering for his life, Ben decided to take a selfie with the hijacker. When asked why, he told The Sun: ‘I’m not sure why I did it. I just threw caution to the wind while trying to stay cheerful in the face of adversity’.
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Premier Youthwork Investigates… Working with refugees in the UK
Faisal knocked on the door of the Refugee Support Network office three weeks ago. We’d never met him before. He had no appointment. He hadn’t been referred to us by a social worker. He was holding a small scrap of paper, with my name and our office address scribbled on.
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Ready-to-use Movie: Interstellar
It’s the near future and Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, leading to mass food shortages and extreme climate change. But at the very point that humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to save itself and possibly find a new place to live.
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IssuesMy intergenerational retreat weekend
This weekend I attended a family / intergenerational retreat held at a lovely retreat house in New Jersey. This was the third year the retreat was offered by this particular local church. At least three generations were represented and some adults attended who were not at all related to the children who were there.
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Ready-to-use Worship: Worship and Intercession
Have you ever tried to make your young people come to a church prayer meeting? It would seem a counter-intuitive thing to do – the
typical slow, long-winded prayer meeting appears incompatible with the attention span of a teenager (or an adult, for that matter, but we’ve
learnt to hide our yawns). Yet, the 24/7 Prayer movement has largely been seen as a youth movement, and it consists of a ridiculous amount of praying. -
IssuesJourneying towards integrity
Integrity. What a word: inspiring and daunting all at the same time. Instantly it conjures up images of our greatest leaders; of men and women who knew what they stood for and lived by it - Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Jose Mourinho*. At the same time, the word (and that list) has connotations of unmatchable expectations: idealism we’ll never quite live up to. We want to be people of integrity, but we know ourselves too well to believe we’ll ever truly manage it.
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IssuesInstagram star quits social media
Have you ever fallen down a social media black hole? You know, one of those missing afternoons where you start off looking at an interesting video on YouTube and find yourself, three hours later, staring blankly at a meme of Donald Trump with absolutely no idea how you got there. What did we ever do when waiting for a bus or during a dreadfully boring sermon before we had Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to check in on?
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IssuesInspired Radicals
Radicalisation isn’t just a threat facing our young people, it’s one threatening to disrupt our Western culture as we know it. But what if the answer to radicalisation isn’t to run away from deep, life-changing narratives, but to embrace them and offer an alternative?
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IssuesWill Ofsted inspect my Sunday School?
Our experts answer your questions on children’s and families’ ministry.
