Author Archives: Daniel Singleton

I was recently doing some kids work with a group of fifteen 7- and 8-year-olds. The group leader decided to play an icebreaker game for my benefit, where each child would impersonate an animal through sound and action; a good opportunity for me to learn […]

Council prayers, fanatical secularism and the PM making statements about the UK being a Christian country… faith is certainly in the news again. I am tempted to say for all the wrong reasons – I don’t mean that, as all these things are important and […]

Over the past couple of weeks my wife has quite often been out of an evening; I have been putting the kids to bed and (in theory) reading them a bedtime story. The other night I suddenly realised my seven-year-old son was jumping up and […]

Part of our role as FaithAction is to try to predict the future. What will a new government want to fund? What types of programme best fit new department priorities? How can faith and community groups shape their work to fit new opportunities, new challenges […]

While the news is full of comment on the state of the European Union and the single currency, it may be unpopular to call for us to learn from our European neighbours, but I am daring to do so. In fact it is not the […]