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I was chatting today with a youthworker who used to design magazine layouts professionally and we were talking about the various things we use for backgrounds.I've used typogenerator which works very simply and transforms text into a funky background. You sometimes have to wade through some dull ones until you get a good one as it is randomised.Also I've loved the discovery of this website with fon...
Rowan Williams has responded to the statement from GAFCON with a statement of his own. It is a very thoughtful, respectful yet convicted piece of writing. It acknowledges the fair aspects of GafCon's statement, points out its weaknesses and proposes ways forward. It's a statement that demonstrates to me again why this man is where he is:"I believe that it is wrong to assume we are now so far apart...
Tim Abbot pointed out a new project to bring the Gospel story to anime. The video below is a taster (not in final version) which they creators would like some comment on here (if English is your first language - there are 30 languages available). As well as the video below they've rendered a still in five different styles for the survey. Anime fans, go comment so they can get it in a way that will...
Ok, so I thought our new dog Eddie was excited when I came home today after a long but fab day visiting "me colleague" Craig in Blackburn Diocese. Yet his jumping up and down was nothing to my delight when I opened the post and discovered the latest edition of the Journal of Youth and Theology from the IASYM which includes three book reviews by yours truly. Pathetically proud of this small elemnt o...
P130608_14.07Originally uploaded by Sarah BrushWhat does YFC mean to you? For those in youthwork it often means Youth for Christ (for those in the southwest it might be Yeovil Football Club!) yet in Worcestershire and other rural areas it is of course the YOUNG FARMERS CLUB.This display of street art comes from the fabulous tent full of displays from Young Farmers from Worcetsershire, Herefordshire...