All Editorial articles – Page 138
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What's the Point in Post Graduate Training?
In the busy landscape of youth ministry, a postgraduate degree might feel like an unnecessary luxury. Taking time out to sit alone with books can seem a distraction from the ‘real’ work you are doing – so why bother at all? We’ve found six youth workers who are convinced that postgraduate study is worth it, and how – for various different reasons – their youth work has been transformed in the process.
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Greater / Lesser
After turning their hands to event management, Team Youthwork share their experiences of May’s Youthwork Summit in five bite-sized mathematical symbols.
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BlogOnly grief leads to newness
In this week's Youthwork blog, Jonny Baker of CMS Pioneer Leadership Training shares how our grief with the current state of youth ministry can inspire us into newness
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IssuesThe ungrieved grief
Being a young person in the 21st Century is to live in a world full of suffering and pain, yet so often we try and shield young people from it. In an adaption from his new book, Mark Yaconelli explains the vital role that grief plays in turning our hearts towards hope
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BlogThe Youth Group Reunion
When I was 13 – short, unpopular and almost perfectly spherical - someone invited me along to a church youth group. I had no prior interest in God - my main concerns at that time were Atari ST games and the lingering worry that no girl would ever look at me without retching.
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IssuesGrowing up Poor
In this so-called ‘age of austerity’, more and more families are having to face difficult financial decisions. How can we sensitively help children and families who are struggling? Kate Traynor, Project Worker for CURBS, explores some principles to guide us.
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BlogGrowing up
Jo Dolby continues our blog series by suggesting some ways that youth ministry can ‘grow up’.
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IssuesHome Grown
It’s simple maths really: the most effective way of doing youth ministry is to engage and equip parents to foster faith in their teenagers at
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IssuesReady-To-Use Mentoring: Spiritual Growth
Unlike business, which can collect data on performance, or social media, which can count ‘likes’ and ‘shares,’ things-of-thespirit are rather more tricky to quantify.
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Labour Offers Jobs Guarantee
The Labour Party is offering a jobs guarantee for long-term unemployed young people if it wins the election next year.
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IssuesQ&A with Michael Gungor
Gungor – a folk rock band from the United States – have somehow managed to slip under the radar. Despite being nominated for a Grammy Award, touring all over the place, and being loved by many people in the UK and beyond - they still feel somewhat like an undiscovered gem. Deputy editor Phoebe Thompson caught up with lead singer Michael Gungor at LST in the Park, to talk about his music, growing up in the church and how to foster young people’s musical gifts.
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IssuesQ&A: Paula Hall
Paula Hall is a former youth worker, who is now a therapist specialising in sex and pornography addictions and is widely recognised as the UK’s leading expert in the field. Paula has recently authored Confronting porn, a comprehensive guide for Christians struggling with porn and churches wanting to help them. She spoke to deputy editor Ruth Jackson about how we can help young people struggling in this area
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IssuesRedeeming Halloween
October 31st: the date of the year’s most controversial ‘festival’ for many Christians. So should we ignore it, replace it, or try to navigate a path somewhere between the two? Experienced children’s worker Margaret Pritchard-Houston explains her passionately held belief that children need to explore the darkness in order to truly understand the light.
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BlogThis picture hangs in my spare room…
Laura Haddow reflects on the gift of memory.A priceless eclectic collage, predominantly of my teenage years, complete with plenty of bad hair mistakes; pink, blue and red, an assortment of festival snapshots...
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IssuesWhen the Worst Happens
The death of a child is an unthinkable tragedy. How do you support a family through the grieving process? Hospital chaplain Reverand Paul Nash gives some starting points.
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Young people now ‘less happy’
Young people’s happiness has dropped significantly in the UK in the last few years, according to a major new report.
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Blog
Why I Hate Youth Residentials
For the first time ever, Youthwork opened up its doors for a one-day writers masterclass. Sixteen youth workers gathered from all corners of the country to share ideas, learn skills and to hone their craft. In the coming weeks we will be posting guest blogs from the attendees – here is today’s by Gemma Wilkinson.
