Sunday night’s youth group was themed around anger and the small group study turned out to be quite interesting. As Christians we tend to take 2 routes with anger. Firstly we take the ‘anger is wrong‘ approach and draw a line…then comes approach 2 in response to ‘didn’t Jesus get angry?‘ which comes in the   Read More …

I heard from friends that the panorama on the 24th March had been on chocolate, it’s origins and Fairtrade so I thought I’d give it a watch (you can too here). I have to say having watched Panorama on Primark I expected something negative…and in fairness I was half right. The program aimed to show   Read More …

A campaign has sprung up in the last month aiming to get the Delirious? song ‘History Maker’ to number 1 for Easter…the Facebook group (here) has almost 50,000 members (which I’m not sure is enough for a number 1) and is encouraging people to download 1 of 2 versions of the Delirious? song. Alongside this   Read More …

All over the world today is Palm Sunday and thousands of Christians everywhere will have received a Palm Cross and read Luke 19 where we read about Jesus instructing His disciples to go off and find a donkey and bring it back followed by Jesus riding on this donkey with people all around praising him   Read More …

A friend on twitter posted about a new programme called ‘mflow’ the other day wondering if it would be the next Spotify. I have since requested an invite to mflow and had a chance to preview it and whilst the reviews talk about it being a cross between Spotify and Twitter I seriously don’t think   Read More …

As I mentioned on Wednesday yesterday I attended a day of lectures being run by Youth, Mission and Culture in Leeds on the subject of Gender. It was great to have the opportunity to spend sometime thinking in depth about a subject without it being linked to a course, essay or just being stuff that   Read More …

I’ve just returned from the gender day I mentioned yesterday and will blog on it properly tomorrow however today ‘The Sun’ has an article with some fun things from Facebook so I thought I’d share on and link you to the others…they’re vaguely amusing, although my favourite Facebook group is still ‘I hate it when   Read More …

Tomorrow I’m heading up to Leeds for a day of lectures from Youth, Culture and Mission all themed on gender and youth work. It’ll be my first ‘lectures’ since leaving uni last May and I’m actually looking forward to it. I think it’ll be a really interesting opportunity to find out more about gender as   Read More …

Since Jo and myself started planning the wedding in August we’ve realised that actually it’s not that difficult to plan a wedding…there’s been a few difficulties but when it comes to the actual planning, idea collecting etc we’ve both realised that we tend to sing from the same metaphorical hymn sheet with both of us   Read More …

On Friday I headed into Beverley to get a few bits…Beverley is about the same distance from me as Hull and much more relaxing to wander around and smaller. Whilst there I past a small bookshop called ‘Jacobs Well’ which is a charity bookshop with a small Christian bookshop attached to it. Whilst the Christian   Read More …

I’m not a big fan of cultured stuff…sit me with a Shakespeare play or in front of the Mona Lisa and I’ll complain about the old fashioned language or say ‘right what’s next…’. When it comes to things arty I am not someone who appreciates fine art. However this does not mean I don’t like   Read More …

Since starting lent I have not purchased a single thing from a supermarket however I have been in ASDA on one occasion! Today I needed to go to the Apple Store in Meadowhall and had some time to kill at the same time. This is all well and good but Meadowhall is one of my   Read More …