All Editorial articles – Page 139
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Ready-to-use Music : Right Place, Right Time (Album)
The X Factor runner-up and all-round cheeky chappie Olly Murs releases his third album; sure to get you bouncing along to its feel-good tracks.
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Ready-to-use Music: Christmas Carols (Album)
For this session, you can use any Christmas album which includes traditional carols, rather than just Christmas songs.
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IssuesAlbum: Girl
The long awaited second album from Pharrell, with many tracks which can be used to explore issues of gender and femininity, along with this track, from Despicable Me 2
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IssuesAlbum: Home Artist: Rudimental
The debut album from the Brit Award- winning London quartet features vocals from a whole heap of guest stars.
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Janet The Frozen-Food Aisle Attendant
A modern day re-telling of the story of Rahab by Phoebe Thompson
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Walking in the air
Space: the final frontier, and now, for some, the final, most desirable tourist destination in the world. Well… just outside of the world.
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BlogHoliday clubs: thinking ahead
Premier Childrenswork’s Alex Taylor is as close to a holiday club expert as it’s possible to be. (You can read his article on Last Minute Tips here). Here he encourages you to think ahead to when it’s all over.
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IssuesAll Age Service: Talking Jericho
A service plan looking at the Israelites’ continuing adventure.
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IssuesAll Age Service: Jesus meets a Samaritan woman
A service plan about worshipping in spirit and truth
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IssuesRaise the age of consent, say British teenagers
A poll for the National Children’s Bureau has revealed that more young people would raise the age of consent than lower it. The research, consisting of over 2,700 interviews with schoolchildren aged 11-16, showed that 22 per cent believed that the age of consent should be higher, with only 16 per cent saying it should be lowered.
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IssuesYouth Work in the Age of Approval
Every generation has a story - a tapestry of societal factors and subtle cultural undertones influencing and shaping its worldview, actions and beliefs. Over the coming months we will be exploring the broad cultural brush strokes affecting the thoughts and feelings of the generation we seek to serve, and how the world they are growing up in is impacting their approach to life, faith and Church. This month, Dr Edgar de Blieck explores this generation’s need for approval
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IssuesYouth work in the age of distrust
Every generation has a story - a tapestry of societal factors and subtle cultural undertones influencing and shaping its thoughts, actions and beliefs. As youth workers, it’s critical that we explore the broad cultural brush strokes affecting the thoughts and feelings of the generation we seek to serve, and how the world they are growing up in is impacting their approach to life, faith and Church. In this part of our 'Youth work in the age of…' series, Kenny Wilson explores the ethics of evangelism in an age of distrust.
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IssuesYouth Work in the Age of Consumerism
In the next part of our series, Matt Valler tackles the biggest ‘ism’ impacting our society: consumerism
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IssuesWelsh Cathedral hosts road show to end legalized violence against children
Brecon Cathedral has joined forces with Welsh children’s societies to launch the ‘Children are Unbeatable!’ campaign to end legalised violence against children.
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BlogDead Book Society: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
New things are great, but old things can be great too. Youth worker Mark Walley is really keen on books written by dead people (people who are now dead, not who were dead at time of writing), and the youth work wisdom we can glean from them. So each month he will review an old book, and explain why it’s worth your precious time. The only qualification? That the author be deader than CS Lewis. This month’s book: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, by Thomas Brooks.
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IssuesTrying to bring change in your children’s ministry (or ‘The ballad of repeatedly banging your head against a wall’)
National adviser for children and youth for the Church of England Mary Hawes faces the same problem many of us do: no matter how inspired, equipped and envisioned she feels, trying to bring about change in her home church is a painful process. Fortunately, she’s got some ideas to help…
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Ask.fm changes policy AFTER teen suicide
Social media website Ask.fm has changed its safety policy following the suicide of Hannah Smith.
