Been re-reading A Churchless Faith by Alan Jamieson again this week, in order to get my head round a more narrative style of writing up information obtained during unstructured interviews.
I have to say that it is probably the Christian book (& one of the books – without categorising) which has had most impact [...]
Dave has an excellent post on having ideas.
Tea, Toast and Prayer was an idea that didn’t work out entirely as planned but was fun to put together and meant I did see a small number of my friends last night, (& even pray a little with other people). So I’m marking it down as [...]
Tonight, if you’re logging on between 7:15 and 9:30 / 10ish (or at any point today really) and you are that way inclined I invite you to join my tea, toast and prayer evening.
It’s an evening when the idea is that people spend a bit of time praying in a way they feel comfortable [...]
Third Party has just left for a week with her dad & so I have a week to put together a strategy and live an ickle, (oh and do some more of the dis in peace).
I still have work because I think we are the only institution without half term this week, (we are supposed [...]
When I was young there was: drinking, smoking, cars, lads and stuff – as well as church. For us it was something to do, a natural part of growing up & it was there when we got to being 15ish. It was something that we just did, in part because there wasn’t much else to [...]
I know all about learning theories, but know precious little about unlearning. This is a pity because at the moment I realise I have an awful lot of unlearning to do.
Also I know alot about formal learning, but I realise I need to do alot more informal learning which just involves sharing with people and [...]
Reading through this weeks Schnews update I came across the following article about Faslane which brought a smile to my face:
“Anti-nulclear do-gooders are still making a nuisance of themselves
as part of the Faslane 365 campaign (See SchNEWS 581) which is
still firing on all cylinders. So far, ninety different blockading
groups – including academics, clergy, artists [...]
Back in 2004 Grace Davie gave this Sociology lecture at Greenbelt, (sorry talk). Part of her whole Belief without Belonging thesis which she was basically talking about relates to the idea that the majority of people now do religion vicariously (i.e. they expect other people do it on their behalf and the only time [...]
There comes a point when it all starts to slow down and becomes an ickle less mad. When the streams of students are replaced by all the jobs you need to do. When from the mass of paper which has turned into something resembling modern art you somehow manage to extract the correct sheets from [...]