I've just come back from Regent's Theological College, which is the Elim church's National Training Centre. I was visiting to take part in a debrief for the Serious4Youth Ministry Course which the college runs. It's a one-year course for people who want to be youth ministry specialists and I teach a module on the course called "Communication in a Youth Setting". I've really enjoyed lecturing, but was a little bit wary at first: teaching on 'communication' meant I was setting myself up as an expert and had to practice what I was preaching! Happily, the feedback from students was positive, and even more importantly almost all of the 23 on the course are either moving onto further study or appointments in local churches around the UK.
On the way up to the college I bought the Independent newspaper which had Bono as guest editor for the day. Half of all the revenues from the edition go to fight AIDS in Africa. Bono made a great job of editing the paper, which included a startling front cover design by Damien Hirst featuring amongst other things a verse from Genesis. As well as six pages dedicated to what the paper called 'The Africa Issue', Bono interviewed Eddie Izzard in the arts section on the psychology of performing, and Bono's bandmate The Edge was interviewed about how culture in New Orleans is being rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina. Tucked away in the middle of the paper, part of the editorial section alongside a piece by Bob Geldof, was this thought for the day written in 1669 by William Penn, a British Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania:
'No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.'
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