All Editorial articles – Page 130
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IssuesGirl Guides issue Body Confidence Badge
The Girl Guides launched a new ‘body confidence’ badge in March, in response to ‘a crisis’ in the way girls perceive themselves. The ‘Free being me’ badge involves girls having to spot airbrushed photos and will be adapted for younger Brownies, who will be taught that princesses are negative role models for body image. To attain the badge, girls will have to attend two sessions on the issue and spread the word in their local community.
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IssuesGirl Guides Introduce ‘Body Confidence’ Badge
The Girl Guides launched a new ‘body confidence’ badge in March, in response to ‘a crisis’ in the way girls perceive themselves.
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IssuesNo more bad biscuits and squash
The team shares its visions and dreams for the Church of the future.
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IssuesOnline protection: Why CARE is backing the online safety bill
In March of this year, a shocking report revealed that children as young as seven were uploading sexualised content of themselves onto the internet ...
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The Back Page: Faith-forming families
These days most children’s ministry leaders agree that the key to the positive faith formation of children lies in the home. The ways in which
parents model their faith to and talk about their faith with children has direct bearing on the ongoing ability of children to learn to love God and live in the way of Jesus. -
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The Back Page: Solid Ground
‘So the Bible is a lie?’ my son clarified, his little fiveyear- old head cocked to one side and his nose squished up in thought. Panic began to rise in my stomach: ‘Okay, Rachel. You did not explain this well.’
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IssuesBack to Life
What do you do when you realise your youth work isn’t working? How do you breathe new life into a flagging group? Martin Saunders provides a practical approach to youth ministry resurrection.
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BlogTen things to do when you get back from a summer festival
Well done, oh youth worker friend! You have survived the greatest ordeal known to man: the summer festival. In case your brain cells are so exhausted that even reading this is a challenge – here’s a handy list of things you must do before you completely and fully collapse into a heap
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IssuesPutting Christ back in Christmas
Christmas is fast approaching and a Christmas assembly is a great opportunity to tell children about the amazing events that surrounded Jesus’ birth. However, children will take part in so many Christmas activities, plays and parties that there is a danger of them all running into each other. What can you do that will make your assembly stand out from the all the other events?
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IssuesBringing back Christian ethos to a group?
Our experts answer your questions on children’s and families ministry
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BlogBack to the Future: Where we’re going, we don’t need meeting guides!
According to The Rest of The Internet™, today is Back to the Future Day. For the uninitiated, 21st October 2015 is the date Marty McFly and Doc Brown visited in Back to the Future 2. They discovered a world of hoverboards, Jaws 19 in 4D and self-tying trainers, all of which makes the real 2015 a little disappointing – the future isn’t what it used to be. But what about youth ministry? Is 2015 in youth ministry what we expected 30 years ago?
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Creating a movement: Back to basics
‘The Church has no future!’ That was the message we heard when the recession hit in 2008 and youth ministry was removed from many church budgets: the cuts were pragmatic in nature and it was sink or swim time. Many programmes shrank or dissolved. However when you remove youth ministry from your priority list, a loud declaration is heard: ‘We are living on borrowed time!’
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Back to School
The words ‘Physics’, ‘Protractor’, and ‘End of term test’ might send a shiver down your spine. But do we really know what’s going on in schools these days? Annie Carter insists that we can learn so much from venturing into schools, and experiencing the day-to-day reality our young people face.
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The Back Page: Storytelling and other Barbaric Practices
For once there was a modicum of attention in my junior church group. It’s a mixed-ability, mixed-age group, with plenty of mixed attitudes to God. It ranges from the ‘It’s all rubbish, I’d rather talk about huskies’ approach to a seven year-old who has recently brought her entire family to become regular churchgoers, has been baptised and is delighted to see her parents on an introduction to Christianity course.
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The Back Page: Was that God?
Lots and lots of people are thinking about the faith formation of children these days. That’s a good thing. Maybe with all these great minds working on this we’ll finally figure it out. Most people who write about the faith formation of children talk about the importance of two sets of relationships in the life of the child: the child’s family and the quality of the child’s relationships with people of other generations.
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It's You Or The Baby
When Victoria Webster had a routine 21-week blood test it revealed that she had leukaemia. She was advised to have a late termination because the medication used in chemotherapy would kill the child. Doctors basically told her that she would die if she had her baby...
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IssuesBaby, Baby, Baby, Uh Oh
Teen icon Justin Bieber had another eventful month after being arrested for speeding and driving under the influence before having the charges dropped.
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