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Friday, January 24, 2025

Should parents fell bad about skipping church during the school holidays?

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I’ve usually skipped church with my kids during the school holidays. When I worked for a church, I usually expected the same. So, should a p...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Am I a better theologian as a teacher or as a youth minister?

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You would think that the answer was simple…  I was a better theologian while in vocational ministry. I’m not completely convinced. Sure, whi...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Interesting is not the aim of the pulpit

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Hopefully, when I come away from hearing a sermon, I don’t have either of the following reactions… That was interesting. That was clever. Ne...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Education & Faith share the same analogy

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Both are like fire. Both need a spark to be ignited. Both light up the world around you. Both need to remain fed to keep going. Both can pro...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2024 Best of…

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2024 was a fairly significant year for me as I taught Studies of Religion in senior school for the first time , developing the course from s...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

The best ways to AI your content

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AI is a highway to laziness. This post is not about using AI instead of your brain or resourcefulness. But, AI can play an important (but tr...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

The indicator that you’re not a Young Adult anymore

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As a married guy in my 40’s, with two kids, I’m a significant distance away from being a young adult. I’m certainly outside the scope of the...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Is there a way to avoid inevitably having hundreds of sick days?

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Currently, I have enough sick days accrued to have a day off every week for the entire school year of 2025. And I’m only nearing the end of ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Why we deal with the symptoms and not the root cause

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Do we tend to deal with the symptom or the root cause? Often, our systems will want to patch over the visible reactions to a dilemma. Withou...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

The Ministry OF Children

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I’ve seen and done a lot of ministry FOR children. Sunday mornings. School scripture. Special events. Holiday clubs. Camps. But, the church ...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

The matrix of volunteering obligations

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No matter if it is in a church or another context, there is a flow of responsibility which comes to volunteering. At the start, the voluntee...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

The advantage of students seeing the face of their teacher during an exam

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As we reach the middle of the school term, all of my classes will have in-class examinations leading up to the creation of school reports. A...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

The difference between being Interested, Involved and Invested in a ministry

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Everyone doesn’t need to be involved in a ministry of a church in exactly the same way. Obviously. Everyone doesn’t have the same skills. Ev...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Why my teaching of 9/11 is different to everything else I teach

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What is the first significant world event that you remember? For me, it is the death of Princess Diana in 1997. Do you remember 9/11? There’...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The conversation which fuels self-efficacy

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In year 6 I had a conversation with my teacher which has stuck with me ever since. The entire interaction went for only a matter of moments ...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

The cost of having a parent-less ministry to kids on a Sunday morning

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I wrote here that parents should be one of - if not THE - primary providers of spiritual input on a Sunday morning in regards to ministry t...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

No one has any idea of our internal wounds

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Currently, I have a small scab on the inside of my nose. I also bit the inside of my cheek while having lunch with someone earlier in the we...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

What direction are you circling the wagons?

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At times, you’ll need to circle the wagons. You’ll need to protect what’s important to you. You’ll need to engage in active self-protection....
Monday, September 16, 2024

Teaching isn’t meant to be a secret

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I sometimes wonder if people (especially students and parents) think that teachers receive a sly sense of accomplishment when we grade an as...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Would putting the point first make a difference?

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Last Sunday I was building towards a point with the youngsters at church. It wasn’t - I grant you - a life-changing point, but hopefully a s...