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  The emperor penguins secret is huddling as an extension of the "be big" method of reducing surface area to survive the extreme cold.

2010-02-10T09:05:00+00:00 2010-02-10T09:05:00+00:00 2010-02-10T09:05:00+00:00 http://www.godfirst.org.uk/blog_article.php?id=17 Godfirst

This article appeared in the Gloucestershire Echo today. It is a slightly modified version of my press release below. I don't like the headline but it is generally positive.

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Disabled Access? The first I knew of a Church Planting conference in Bath this week was when it started to appear on the Facebook status of some cyber friends.

2009-10-15T07:18:00+00:00 2009-10-15T07:18:00+00:00 2009-10-15T07:18:00+00:00 http://www.godfirst.org.uk/blog_article.php?id=10 Godfirst

It was great to have a meal the other week with Mark Jones who leads City Church Gloucester. We sat in a pub which had been the site of the first ever Sunday School founded by Robert Raikes, and opposite St.

2009-09-18T10:45:00+00:00 2009-09-18T10:45:00+00:00 2009-09-18T10:45:00+00:00 http://www.godfirst.org.uk/blog_article.php?id=8 Godfirst

  In a star filled Manchester night last Saturday 55 000 gathered at Old Trafford Cricket Ground for Coldplay. "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, everything you do, and they were all yellow" as I joined the mass Karaoke (Naomi tells me I have a good voice - just as well as I was singing in her ears).

2009-09-02T23:38:00+00:00 2009-09-02T23:38:00+00:00 2009-09-02T23:38:00+00:00 http://www.godfirst.org.uk/blog_article.php?id=3 Godfirst

When I was involved in training teachers we used to talk about the "hidden curriculum". This is not the on the page content of urban models or coastal erosion that you intend the students to be learning but the off message content that is learned as unintentional by products of the school experience. The hidden curriculum provides students with regular unplanned lessons on topics such as authority and power from teachers or inequalities in social networks from their peers.

2009-08-31T23:58:00+00:00 2009-08-31T23:58:00+00:00 2009-08-31T23:58:00+00:00 http://www.godfirst.org.uk/blog_article.php?id=4 Godfirst

Podcasting seemed logical maybe there was somebody out there who was interested in listening to my sermons. Even if there wasn't I was preaching Sunday by Sunday and it saved burning CD's for the Kids workers.