Kirjahaku

This book explores models for youth ministry from the life and ministry of Christ. This area of study has become fossilised because youth workers rely too heavily on the notion of 'incarnational' or 'relational' youth ministry. This leads them to believe that they must spend huge amounts of time with young people in order to 'earn the right' to share the gospel with them. The author argues that this foundation for youth ministry is inadequate and impractical and that it is not how Jesus himself operated. He proposes a broader Christology as a foundation for youth ministry today. Each chapter includes study questions for individuals or groups.

Steve Griffiths' 'Weathereye: Selected Poems' pulls together the best of seven collections over forty years. There are poems of childhood and family and love poems, poems of being alive and conscious - and perhaps above all a continuing quest to understand what's going on `among scatterings of lived material', exploring the nature and fragilities of community against a backdrop of the deep changes that are shaping us and challenging our beliefs. There are veins of loss, commemoration, resistance to injustice, and self-questioning; living landscape and interrogated history. Griffiths' capacity to celebrate and lament develops and deepens as he calls increasingly on a lightness of touch and a mischievous glint.

Steve Griffith's long-awaited third collection of poems Uncontrollable Fields is a sensitive look at the contemporary world, the legacy of politics, history, love, chance. Ranging across Wales, England and Spain, from Owain Glyndwr to cruise missiles at USAF bases, these poems probe and plot our society today. Griffiths also finds a more personal entry to his exploration through the lives and deaths of his parents, which loom large in outstanding poems of remembrance. Throughout, the poet demonstrates once more his sense of form, his control and his exciting use of imagery. Steve Griffiths is a serious writer, a perceptive social commentator totally engaged with life."He provokes a wary excitement and the feeling that our own time is being plausibly imagined... He reminds us of a great lack in our poetry"TLSSteve Griffiths was born in Anglesey in 1949, where he lived until he was eighteen. He read English at Cambridge and did various jobs until 1973, when he began his involvement with community work and welfare rights in north London.

"...the global intrigue of a Robert Ludlum novel, and a lean immediacy akin to Lee Child..." He woke up with a scar on his forehead, a year of missing memories, and a stranger at his door with a warning: "Someone is coming to kill you." Shawn Nash was supposed to be dead. Instead, he's on the run, and carrying something inside him he doesn't understand-an experimental neural implant powered by the sentient AI his murdered wife created. The world thinks he killed her. Shawn knows the truth, but to prove it, he'll have to find a hidden hard drive with a damning video. Every step of the way, the real killer is close behind... and ready to finish what he started. Guided by a digital ghost in the shape of a perfectly mannered English gentleman, Shawn sets off on a desperate mission for answers. His journey will take him through the underworld of medicine and the tranquil English countryside, to the cliffs of a sun-splashed Greek island, and deep into a fortified server farm buried beneath the American Midwest. As the bodies pile up, and lines blur between man and machine, he must outrun assassins, outsmart intelligence agencies, and outfight the man who wants to steal what's in his head... and unleash a version of AI no one can control. But the deeper Shawn digs, the more he realizes: This isn't just revenge. It's a kill sequence. And it's already begun.