As I mentioned on my last post and on my twitter account this week I’ve been away on a Scripture Union schools work training week and I’m sat in the ‘chill-out’ area of the Kings Park conference centre using the wifi and taking some time out after 3 and a half days of sessions on schools work.

I very rarely get to go on conferences and things like this and so it’s good to have some time away, the sessions are useful and the food is really good however with so much to take in and a brain close to bursting I’ve decided to take some time out before tea.

Having done bits and pieces of schools work before it’s been interesting to hear what others are doing and also interesting to hear that the sorts of things I’ve been thinking of for Hunsley Christian Youth Trust seem to be along the right lines, it’s also been great to network with other people doing similar things this week.

There’s so many things I could blog on but I feel a blog on schools work perhaps isn’t what I’m aiming to do here…although I don’t think I’m doing anything as such by this post more updating.

On a complete side-note there’s been some really interesting comments on my blog on John Sentamu and Prostitution (link) and the question of ‘is it safer for prostitutes for it to be legal’ has been discussed. I think it’s a very interesting topic to consider, as a Christian I cannot possibly agree that prostitution is ok and in some ways I feel that legalising it would make a statement suggesting that it is ok however on the flip-side legalising would give us a variety of benefits.

The most important of these benefits would be that we would be able to protect the girls who are prostitutes in far greater ways than we can at the moment, police would be able to monitor and visit brothels without being a threat to those who run them and potentially helping the girls out would be far more accessible.

The real question is really one of asking ourselves whether legalising something in order to regulate it and to provide more safety for those involved should happen when the thing we’re legalising is wrong…discuss!