Sneaking a peek over God’s shoulder to see what He is up to: thoughts on future church
Sneaking a peek over God’s shoulder to see what He is up to: thoughts on future church
When I was teaching I was struck by a claim that schools are always teaching young people about the world the teachers inhabited, preparing them for a world that won’t exist when the young people enter it as adults. Unless they consciously try to do otherwise, teachers tend to teach…
We don’t often think about the future of the church. We talk about children in church as ‘the next generation’ when they’re a vital, hopefully integral part of today’s church, and we don’t seem able to think much further. Why is that, do you think? My own reflections say it’s…
Obviously I can’t really sneak a peak over God’s shoulder – it’s an audacious thought and quite impossible given the immense scope and scale of the work. But when Sainsburys sponsored a ‘Take your Daughter to Work’ day in the 1990s, intending to give girls an insight into some of…