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Azerbaijan and Human Rights

Posted in Music, TV & Film, Social action, Society on May 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Azerbaijan tonight is hosting Eurovision 2012 – but there has been some good questions asked this week about this given their poor record with human rights, check out this infographic:

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What does every child deserve

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Share your thoughts in the comments – what does every child deserve? Via: Thought Questions

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Nicholas Bate – The Stages of Life

Posted in Funny, Society on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Loved The Stages of Life blog post by Nicholas Bate: Baby 7 Milk Milk Sleep Scream Sleep Milk Milk Toddler 7 Mmm? Curious.. What’s this? Crash! What do you mean ‘no’? Mmm? Curious.. Child 7 Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? zzzZZ… Adolescent 7 Maybe Whatever Sure Later Ok Yep Uhhuh College Student 7 Essay [...]

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24-Hour Childcare

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, News, Society on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I couldn’t quite believe I read this – in the world of outsourcing to India business has taken another step – how about outsourcing your parenting?  A 24-hour childcare center in New Delhi billed itself as the place to go for “children of parents who are too busy to put them to bed”: “At ‘Care [...]

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A Day in the Life of the Internet

Posted in Society, Statistics, The web on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Internet is, by most scientific estimates, absolutely huge. While only about one-third of the world’s population is connected, the amount of data we generate and consume is so large it is near impossible to comprehend.  Perhaps the best way to put all those petabytes in perspective is to look at what goes down in [...]

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Should Christians Boycott Starbucks?

Posted in Church, Social action, Society, Theology on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Russell Moore has responded to the question of Should Christians Boycott Starbucks? which has recently been a debate in the USA. It’s not that I’m saying a boycott in and of itself is always evil or wrong. It’s just that, in this case (and in many like it) a boycott exposes us to all of [...]

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Holy Week and Consumerism

Posted in Church, Society, Theology on April 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Good article by James Martin at Slate: Sending out hundreds of Easter cards this year? Attending way too many Easter parties? Doing some last-minute shopping for gifts to place under your Easter tree? Getting tired of those endless Easter-themed specials on television? I didn’t think so. Unlike Christmas, whose deeper spiritual meaning has been all [...]

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National consultation on Fostering, Adoption & the Church

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, News, Society on April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

There’s been lots of exciting news recently from my friend Krish, and others, on a consultation on fostering, adoption and the church that he is working on with Care for the Family and Evangelical Alliance: There is a pressing need in the UK for more foster and adoptive parents. There is a crisis in recruitment and retainment of [...]

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Children with Down Syndrome: Will Culture Make Them Disappear?

Posted in Society on March 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Kelly Rosati in Christianity Today: On World Down Syndrome Day today, the United Nations will, for the first time, officially recognize those with Down syndrome. I’d say it’s about time. Despite huge advances in improving quality of life—life expectancy has doubled from 25 to 55 years in the last 30 years due to medication, therapies, [...]

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Britain in the year 2030

Posted in Church, Politics, Society on March 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The Daily Mail writes on how In 2030 Britain will officially be less Christian than Secular, I’m not convinced that the statistics have been used in the best way, the extrapolation seems a little extreme, but it makes an interesting point: The march of secularism means Britain may no longer be a Christian country in [...]

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