All Real Life articles – Page 2
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ArticleStormzy gives “full circle” graduation speech to students
Prominent British rapper Stormzy has praised and thanked God in a speech at the University of Exeter, after receiving an honorary degree in a “full circle moment”.
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ArticleChristian RE laws breach human rights legislation
Laws requiring all schools in Northern Ireland to provide faith-based Christian religious education and collective worship breach human rights legislation, the High Court has ruled.
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Article“I don’t think we should just trust them”
A group of teenagers have confronted the bosses at Meta and TikTok over lapse internet safety restrictions.
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ArticleYoung Christian climate activist wins Diana Award
A Christian teenager has been honoured with the Diana Award for going above and beyond in their daily life to create and sustain positive change.
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BlogTaking youth ministry online
Youth ministry is a contact sport. So much of what we know as best practices involves a combination of relational work with teenagers, and hosting spaces of community. So, how do we shift these values into an online, social-distancing approach?
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IssuesReal Life: I’m a bipolar youth worker
When I was 12 a family member and I had an argument in the car. I don’t remember what it was about, but I do remember how it made me feel: worthless, a failure, rejected. That was the first time I remember feeling like this. It was also the first time I self-harmed.
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IssuesReal life: I came to church because my youth worker gave me a guitar
I didn’t grow up in church. None of my family are Christians…yet. My only experience of Christianity was visiting a Catholic church every now and then, but I didn’t have a relationship with God or anything.
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BlogAre we inadvertently sexist?
It’s International Women’s Day. We have a female Prime Minister. We just celebrated 100 years since some women have been able to vote. But the gender pay gap is currently at 18.4 per cent and only seven women rank in the FTSE 100 CEOs. All of them are white. Why? Are we part of the problem? Claire Rush of Girl’s Brigade ministries challenges us to think: are we inadvertently sexist?
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IssuesReal Life: “I felt God press the pause button on my full-time ministry”
I grew up in a loving and caring Christian home, where the Bible was valued and praying together as a family was a regular occurrence. Through Sunday school, the kids’ and youth work at the Keswick Convention and regular Bible reading at home, I grew to love Jesus from a young age. I knew that one day I wanted to be one of those youth leaders who looked cool, dressed confidently and could teach the Bible one moment and be completely daft the next.
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IssuesReal life: “The vicar comes with a free youth worker”
For the past eight years I have been involved in youth work as a volunteer, a youth theatre practitioner, a full-time church worker and now as a sessional youth worker. I have a diploma in youth mission and ministry (just to try and prove I vaguely know what I’m doing!) but all of that seems to pale in comparison to a decision I made in May 2015 - I got married to a trainee vicar.
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IssuesReal Life: “I lead young people who are the same age as me”
I went to a small Christian school from year six to year eleven; there were only 18 pupils in my whole year! In the months leading up to our GCSEs, the teachers encouraged us to look at where we wanted to study next. We wrote CVs, checked out dates for open days and applied for college. I had been to three open days and although it was fun, it wasn’t how I wanted to spend the next two years. College was too big compared to the small school I had grown up in, and I couldn’t find four subjects that interested me.
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IssuesReal life: ‘I thought youth workers were supposed to be young...’
…this was one of the first things that an older lady said to me in when I started my job 15 years ago; I wonder what she thinks about me still being here!
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IssuesReal life: ‘Two of my friends died’
In 2015 I had just become a youth leader at a church in South East England, after moving there for university from the Midlands. I was six hours away from home, and the expense of getting back only made the distance feel further. This was one of the biggest steps of faith I have taken in my 22 years of life.
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Youthwork Summit asks tough questions of Youth ministry
The fourth annual Youthwork Summit drew well over 1,000 delegates to the Midlands in May. The event, which is supported by Youthwork, explored the theme of ‘Greater’ through a series of short dynamic presentations in the style of the American TED conferences. The theme raised a controversial question – are we fighting a losing battle? – before unpacking Jesus’ words in John 14 that we would do ‘even greater things’.
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