Archive for December 2013

Youth work and church growth: what works

Posted on: 12/12/13 | Posted By: Naomi Stanton | Category: Blog

My research into young people’s experiences of Christian youth work challenges the dominant assumption that it is the young that have rejected the church. It’s the churches which too often reject the young. I encountered many stories of barriers faced by young people when engaging with a congregation. John, adopted from a Catholic orphanage in…
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Unlikely Bedfellows? The Supreme Court Considers Christianity and Homosexuality

Posted on: 02/12/13 | Posted By: Mark Hill | Category: Blog

There was something of an inevitability about the decision of the Supreme Court concerning the refusal of Christian hoteliers to provide a double room to a couple in a same-sex relationship: Bull & Bull v Preddy & Hall UKSC 73. The hoteliers held a sincere belief that sexual relations outside marriage were sinful. The…
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