About
This website
This website was started because I was looking for a really good website about youth work, and while their were some alright ones, there was nothing that I read and after had that feeling of satisfaction that you get when all your youth work needs are filled. So I thought, I may as well add some more chaff to the er... big pile of chaff. Also, most of the websites, and most of thinking about youth work, seems to come from a direction that is at best theologically not very rigourous and at worse, outright heretical. So I thought I'd say something about it. Obviously the views put out here are in no way the official views of where I work, or even the unofficial views of where I work.
Myself
My name is Mark Walley, I'm a youth worker for a church based community project in central London. I've been a Christian since I was little and have grown up through a few different churches (all Evangelical, mostly Anglican or Baptist). I've been doing Christian youth work for over seven years in various different jobs. That's not very long I know, but so be it. I'm married to someone called Alice, who is wonderful. I used to have a weblog called iamsparticus.com which still exists, but only just. I'm on Twitter and Flickr. If you wish to contact me my e-mail address is . Leave the subject line intact to (hopefully) guarantee it coming through.
Myself (again)
Iamsparticus.com
As mentioned above, I used to run a website called iamsparticus.com. It was a weblog like this one, but without the focus (which we have right now, we just choose not to use it most days). Occasionally I'd write about youth work stuff, some of which I'll rehash here either verbatim or reworked to make it more culturally sensitive (that is, if your culture is sensitive to appalling writing). The site itself still exists, containing an archive of everything I ever wrote and as a dump for all my public online activity; for all those people interested in me but who can't follow that bilge on Facebook because they're not my friend, that's the site you want to be looking at. Well, that and the Wikipedia page for "I've lost all my mind" I guess.
Copyright
All the content on this site (unless otherwise noted) is licensed under a Creative Comments Attribution Non-Commercial license. That means If you want to use anything on this site for anything non-commercial then you can without asking as long as you refer or link back to the original. Although I should clarify, The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof;