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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Wisdom from young people during Prayer Spaces in Schools #CofEPeeps

A dove with “I am a strong cookie” written on

A leaf rubbing with the words “be your own leaf” written above it and “leaf” written beneath it

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Sure you may feel like you’re not on top of your life today, but are you “two pairs of shoes” not on top of your life?

A picture of my feet, with each foot wearing a shoe from a different pair.

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

“Give the kids a plaster, ask them to write about someone they know who is suffering, and let them stick the plaster somewhere.” That can’t backfire… I think I lost an eyebrow…

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Ruth Harley @ruthh.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"we live with the Five Guiding Principles and it works for us" according to the Archbishop of York. Oh really??? I would suggest that the words 'works' and 'us' are both doing some pretty heavy lifting here! For whom does enshrining inequality 'work'?! @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

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Al Barrett @al-barrett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This blog post has been bubbling up for a while. It tries to do justice to the emotions I sense swirling around me and within me - and to do some theological re-framing along the way... thisestate.blogspot.com/2025/02/burn...

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"Burn it down": responses to/within the polycrisis in the CofE

I remember all-too-well those first few days of the COVID pandemic. As a team locally, with oversight of our youth and community-building wo...

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

#TraitorsUk #TheTraitors I really want someone to tell Alexander “Look at where you are Look at where you started The fact that you're alive is a miracle” #Hamilton

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Jen Johnson @joyinthecorners.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is my very favourite subtitle mistake of all time.

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Overheard at youth club - “my mam’s saved in my phone as ‘spawn point’”

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Lovely night for some detached youth work

Me in a snowy park with a cup of hot chocolate

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

At the Carol service my youngest responded to “he has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty” with a whispered “yesssssss!” I’d like to apply for this to be added to the official liturgy for the season

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Yesterday we took young people from across the groups we run ice skating. I’ve done a fair few ice skating trips over the years and there’s always beautiful moments of young people overcoming their fear of the ice, or more confident ones helping less confident ones. Yesterday was the same - heroes.

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

When I was interviewed for my current youth work role in the Church of England I was asked “what do you think is the biggest challenge the CofE faces re children’s and youth work?” I answered that a church that is scared of decline and so pursues growth at all costs will likely crush or harm 1/2

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Jen Johnson @joyinthecorners.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I was so sure I wasn’t going to decorate for Christmas this weekend, then someone sent us a tiny tree in the post and things escalated and I’m not mad about it (though it’s possible that Biscuit is, just a little)

A guinea pig in a Santa hat by a tiny Christmas tree

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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It’s 1st of December. Mull everything. Mull the wine, mull the cider, mull your tea, mull the tap water, mull the cat, mull the carpet, mull the chairs. Mull it all! Get your hair cut in a mullet. Mull the Kintyre. Mull the halls with boughs of holly. Get everything mulled. FULL MULL AHEAD!

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The star is ready to be followed!

A cardboard star covered in fairy lights

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is the time of year when my kids l get given their parts in the nativity. Every year I remember the time I was given the role of “Patrick Store” (a legally safe parody of Patrick Moore) and I still wonder if my primary school teachers expected me to have any idea who that was.

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Dave Johnson @daveyj90.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Upside of Blue Sky - replies to posts aren’t full of vitriolic hate and despair worthy comments. Downside of Blue Sky - the actual real world news that gets shared remains despair worthy. If anybody could fix that I’d appreciate it.

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Jen Johnson @joyinthecorners.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Youth services might have been decimated but tonight in our little coastal town a group of older men in the community came to youth club to teach the young people woodwork and it was sooooo lovely. They all made a birdhouse together. It was perfect.

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