All Editorial articles – Page 97
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IssuesShoot the Elephant
For many of us, leadership is a by-product of youth ministry. Our vocation is dictated by our passion for young people rather than a desire to lead others and, as such, we focus more on developing our work with teenagers than we do our leadership skills. So, welcome to Leadership 101, a page where each month we’ll unpack an issue we face as leaders, and offer some guidance to traverse it.
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IssuesThe Elephant Room
We need to talk about some things. There are a few issues in youth ministry that for reasons of awkwardness, pride or taboo, simply never get discussed. When they do, we limit ourselves to pat answers and hypothetical, third-person examples. And because of all this awkward silence, none of these things get solved. So it’s time for some radical honesty, time to talk about the things we don’t talk about. Welcome to The Elephant Room.
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Jamie vs. Toy: The Uggly’s Electronic Pup-Pet
From £29.99. Warning – the following review contains multiple uses of the word ‘fart’.
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Toy Review: The Ugglys Electronic Pup-Pet
From £29.99. Warning – the following review contains multiple uses of the word ‘fart’.
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The electric touchline
I found my favourite football pitch last week. It had a big slope, the grass was rubbish and it wasn’t very big. However, one feature made it stand head and shoulders above every other pitch I’ve ever played on. One of the touchlines was an electric fence.
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Issues"That was the Election that was"
The 2015 General Election is likely to go down as one of the most surprising electoral outcomes in recent history. Throughout the campaign the opinion polls told us that the Conservatives and Labour were ‘neck and neck’ and that the outcome of the election would be a hung parliament.
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IssuesPremier Youthwork Investigates: The US Election
As I write this, Donald Trump has been our President-elect in the United States for roughly 17 hours. Today looks so very different to this time yesterday. While I don’t know your personal leanings in Brexit, I imagine I’m experiencing something at least a bit like some of you experienced.
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IssuesThe Real Meaning of Eggs
The Real Meaning of Eggs. Do cultural Easter symbols such as lambs and eggs have any relevance to the biblical story? Ian White explores…
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IssuesReforming religious education
Reform is a fascinating word. At its simplest, the word means to make changes to something in order to improve it. This is exactly the quest of the Welsh government as it endeavours to reform Religious Education in its classrooms in a bid to help protect young people from extremists. At the heart of this reform is a change of name for the subject. A recent ITV news article explains that Huw Lewis, Minister for Education and Skills in the Welsh Government believe that effective teaching of a subject he has titled ‘Religion, Philosophy and Ethics’ could equip young people in Wales with a level of knowledge and understanding that means they would not be vulnerable to extremists.
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IssuesPetition for schools to educate on FGM
A fast-growing petition is calling on education secretary Michael Gove to help end female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK.
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Editorial
I tried some ‘prophetic art’ with my children’s group recently (stay with me on this one). I know that’s an ambitious way of describing it, but in reality it’s just giving the children some space to be alone with God and asking them to draw a picture of what they were thinking about.
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IssuesEditorial
The sharp-eyed among you will notice that we have a cover image that seems to contradict an article from our last edition. In our last magazine, Carl Beech wrote his take on why boys might not engage with Church as we wish they would. This time Margaret Pritchard Houston, in her feature on gender, takes a different view on some of the same issues. It’s not a response or an attempt to disprove Carl, but two different approaches to the same theme. We’re very happy with this: we’re a magazine not a text book, and we want to make space for people to have different views, and for you to read and think about the articles, reaching your own conclusions.
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As a 20-something Christian who studied youth ministry, approximately 80 per cent of my waking hours are spent on stag dos, travelling to weddings, getting ready for weddings or attending weddings. The three main highlights of this year’s wedding season were: my little brother rapping during our best man speech at our other brother’s wedding, Guvna B dancing to his own song at his own wedding, and doing a wedding talk based almost exclusively on the board game Mouse Trap
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I am the proud owner of a fancy iPod speaker, not dissimilar in looks to a black Lego brick, with a sleek and streamlined exterior and four round buttons on top. It’s lovely. And it works pretty well, except that when it’s plugged in it emits the kind of high-pitched noise that is surely only designed for dogs to hear. Unfortunately for me, my ears are still so youthful that they pick up this particular frequency. Excellent.
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I have had some exceptional pets in my time. First there was Jasmini the hamster. The name Jasmin (inspired by Aladdin, of course) wasn’t quite enough – an extra ‘i’ added a certain je ne sais quoi, or so my nine year-old-self thought. Then there was Bobo. A rather large and enthusiastic hamster, Bobo made a break for it and ran away from home, never to be found again. Finally there was Pepsi, a beautiful sleek black and white little mouse, who met an unfortunate end involving some maggots (don’t ask).
