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A year in pictures | Faith in Learning

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A year in pictures. We have had, as they say, a year. I only have to trawl back through issues of. Our fortnightly newsletter, to see that what we have accomplished has been substantial and in nearly all aspects, good, work. When I wrote the series of posts on good work. The final version (below) shows the story of the year with actions we had taken across our 6 core priorities and the criteria we had set to tell us when we had been successful. Despite the density of the text, it is the story of. Has bee...

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Downloads | Faith in Learning

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Some of the documents that the blog mentions are listed here, and may be of interest – you can download them directly:. God and Human Flourishing. Honouring a Christian Foundation. Prospectus Christ The Sower 2012-13. Doing God in Education. Christ the Sower SIAS (Church School Inspection) Report June 2012. The Future of the Curriculum – Presentation to MK heads March 2013. Draft Curriculum Response to Consultation. Department for Education, Huw). TACTYC Occasional Paper No. 2 School Readiness. Garden ec...

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When good is good enough (1) | Faith in Learning

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When good is good enough (1). When God made the world, he spent however long he spent making each part of his wonderful creation, and then he took a good look at it, probably examined it from all angles (omnipresence has its advantages) and then said “That’s good! 8221;And then he did the next bit, taking as long as it took him, with all the care and beauty he could lavish on it, and again said “That’s good! 8221; And so on until it was complete. Good, yes, but it could be outstanding. Beneficial in its ...

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Imagining culture-making (1): creativity and culture making | Faith in Learning

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Imagining culture-making (1): creativity and culture making. Addressed the launch of the Transforming Work discipleship course. At the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity. We think of God as having created the world ex nihilo. We create culture all the time, but we have to recognise that is impacted by the effects of the fall. Hitler, of course, was a great culture-maker, but not in a way that we would want to imitate or reproduce. What, then would redemption look like if we recognised ...Rehea...

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Imagining culture-making (2): Improvisation and authority | Faith in Learning

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Imagining culture-making (2): Improvisation and authority. Improvisation is defined as the free performance of music or drama that conforms to particular stylistic norms. Ornette Coleman (pictured left) died recently, and for a while his music was simply free performance without much attention to anyone else’s stylistic norms, until free jazz established itself as a norm itself. The balance between the. Conformity to stylistic norms. Unbridled imagination combined with well-rehearsed skills. Peter is giv...

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In his hand | Faith in Learning

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What this attention to detail does show is that imperfections and diversity flow from God’s creative goodness, and not chance. The fact that we find imperfections beautiful tells us this. However, what we easily forget in this attention to detail demonstrated by our Creator, is that we live and move and have our full being, under his care. But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. Posted by Huw Humphreys.

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Day is done – in thankfulness | Faith in Learning

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Day is done – in thankfulness. Day is Done is the name of one of the most interesting of Brad Mehldau’s piano trio albums. Another one of those where he extends the definition of jazz standards to songs by Lennon-McCartney, Nick Drake, Thom Yorke and Paul Simon. The title track can be heard here. To get a mention! We would not be the school we are without her, nor had the success we have had, and so I am grateful for all she has done and wish her God’s grace as she moves to Leicestershire. Two weeks ago ...

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Steer the ship | Faith in Learning

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Sue, our wonderful learning mentor at Christ the Sower, came into my office yesterday and handed me a prayer of St Basil of Caesarea (329-379 AD) that goes like this:. Insightful in the light of the experience of the last three days for both of us, which have been crisis after crisis, mostly of adults (including me) not behaving at our finest. In the one case where children were involved, the adults all. This rich fortnight began with a course in London last Wednesday on new leadership challenges. Just f...

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Meditation on the A5 | Faith in Learning

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Meditation on the A5. Unlike Betjeman on the A30. This is complex, and is mirrored, I have found to my surprise, in the history of Shi’a Iran, where over time the. So, whilst we are unlikely to do the damage that the ayatollahs did to their people, we are actually in danger of forgetting that God, whilst he is. Worshipping, not just individuals; and secondly, that we forget completely that God has no “need” of us, that we are created for him and by him for obedience. Posted by Huw Humphreys. Fill in your...