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The Flying Pizza

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Schools work, Social action on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve used a school assembly a number of times entitled “The Flying Pizza”, its aim is to teach children and young people about the varied origins of our food and the benefits and disadvantages of food that ‘travels miles’.  Check out the assembly: Preparation and materials Pizza ingredients: a pizza base, tomato puree or pasta sauce, [...]

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FARM Africa

Posted in Social action on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

How many of you had breakfast this morning?  What did some of you have?  In many parts of Africa people had nothing to eat this morning – actually many of them will have nothing to eat all day.  Most are farmers who depend on the food they grow to feed their children and make a [...]

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Community eating together

Posted in Social action on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I loved reading this article from the New York Times how a local community has for the last 18 years got together on the first Wednesday of every month to eat dinner together. Here’s a few clips: At First Wednesday, there are never any assigned dishes — in true California style, you cook your bliss. Sometimes, great minds [...]

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Steve Jobs did not Change the World, but Bill Gates Might

Posted in Social action, Technical/Gadgets on October 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I loved Eddie’s post on how Steve Jobs did not change the world, but Bill Gates might.  The post was written with respect but accuracy, and a great challenge on what really matters in today’s world: But did he change the world? A lot of commentators of have that he did, but to . be honest [...]

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Campaign for 50,000 Twitter users to tweet Lord’s Prayer

Posted in Church, Social action, Technical/Gadgets, The web on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

As part of a 50 day campaign leading up to the Global Day of Prayer on June 12, GDOP London is calling for 50,000 followers on Twitter to tweet the Lord’s prayer. On Easter weekend GDOP London began tweeting segments of the Lord’s prayer in a bid to encourage more Christians to pray for the [...]

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Love Monday

Posted in Blogging, Social action, Society, Technical/Gadgets on May 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Love Monday is something that’s been flying around twitter today: So here’s the idea: we instigate a new weekly tradition on Twitter, called (because I could think of nothing better) Love Monday. It’s like Follow Friday, but instead of being about attracting or suggesting followers, it’s about encouraging people you follow. So you pick say, [...]

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What If We All Rode Our Bikes?

Posted in Cycling, Social action, Society on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Human-Powered Health from solve on Vimeo.

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Books I have read: For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care

Posted in Books, Church, Social action, Theology on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Today I finished reading For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care by Steven Bouma-Prediger.  The book does a great job at challenging evangelical Christians on why they should care about the environment, the air, the land, and more holistically, the earth.  The book engages theologically on the theme of ecology, [...]

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Do you give money to homeless people?

Posted in Art/Images/Photos, Social action on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Simple question, what’s your answer?

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Hundreds set to propose to David Cameron this Valentine’s Day!

Posted in Politics, Social action on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Valentine’s Day is just a few days away, check out this innovative project from Share Creative: In the run up to 14th February, hundreds of people in the UK will send Prime Minister a Valentine’s Card to raise awareness of the 27 million people all over the world (including the UK) who won’t be shown [...]

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