Teenagers and the 2 Minutes Silence
on Nov 22, 2009 in youth Remembrance Day Young people today......In a survey of over 1,000 adults conducted by ComRes, 93% of 18-24 year-olds said that when at school they had observed two minutes' silence on Remembrance Day, compared with only 73% of 45-55 year-olds. Eighty-six per cent of...

Mission 21 notes 2 - Discipleship: are we actually doing what Jesus told us to do?
on Nov 21, 2009 in church mission 21 discipleship Spent most of Mission 21 in the '24/7 Discipleship' stream, where we explored issues around evangelism and discipleship, and the cultural reality that the vast majority of people now have no Christian/church background at all.What struck me most powe...

Meat and Potato in the Auditory Canal
on Nov 20, 2009 in money modern morals community families faith and work mission Couple of great pioneer* stories from earlier this week:1. The Guardian reports on a Christian family who've been inspired to set up a woodland commune in Somerset. Lots of really challenging stuff in Tobias Jones' account, for example:it feels to me...

Wii Pray
on Nov 19, 2009 in fun Christian idiocy my money's on a spoof. Ht Tech Central/Dave Walker. But if you disagree, you can pre-order from tomorrow.

Mission 21 quotes and notes, part 1
on Nov 19, 2009 in church planting mission 21 mission Just got back from the Mission 21 conference in Bath, failed miserably to make friends with the wifi provision, a problem fellow tweeters and bloggers don't seem to have had.I'll probably blog about it later, once I've caught up with everything else...

'How to Do Mission Action Planning'
on Nov 18, 2009 in Mission Action Plan books mission There are roughly 20 CofE Dioceses now doing some form of Mission Action Planning, an approach to mission strategy pioneered by York and London under David Hope's leadership. But it's quite a faff wading through 20 sets of Diocesan documents, all of...

Survival of the frailest: what will my community look like in 2020?
on Nov 17, 2009 in future social trends older people Via Christian Research. Something useful from the government!!!The government has provided researchers with a very useful online tool for calculating the UK population for any year between 1992 and 2031. The website provides an interactive map that g...

Christmas Services
on Nov 16, 2009 in St. Peters Yeovil St. James Yeovil local stuff Christmas This is currently how the Christmas calendar is shaping up28th Nov Christmas Dinner, St. Peters6th Dec (Sun) Christingle 3.30pm, St. JamesWeds 9th Dec 12.30 Yeovil College Carol ServiceThu 10th Dec 2pm Nativity, Westfield Infant SchoolFri 11th 9.30am...

Technorati top Religious Blogs (if anyone still cares?)
on Nov 16, 2009 in technorati blogging For some time now, Technorati has been a bit of a byword among blog ranking services: slow, erratic, past its best etc., with the only possible advantage being that it shows who's linked to your blog in the last 90 days or so (contrast with Alexa, wh...

National Secular Society to Disband?
on Nov 15, 2009 in secularism national secular society politics "We shouldn't have unelected people influencing decision making." (Terry Sanderson, NSS)which kind of undermines the whole rationale of lobby groups like the National Secular Society, who are, by definition, unelected. A large part of their work is m...