Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Friday 15th to Sunday 17th June 2018 It is Fathers' Day, but I am tired out by having been on the Church Family Weekend. Around 100 of us made the trip down to the Midlands, to the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire, for a time of learning, worship, fellowship and …
Tag: Autism
Company Policies That Keep Neurodiverse Employees Out of the Workplace – Neurodivergent Consulting
I saw this recently, and thought that some of it was relevant to churches as well as businesses, especially the bit about enforced fun. Balaam Neurodiversity seems like the new HR buzzword, and for a good reason. Neurodivergent employees are eagerly entering the workplace, bringing along fresh perspectives and valuable skills.Employers … Source: Company Policies …
A Farewell
Toby's last service Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, 3 June 2018 Sometimes a blog is hard to write. This is one of them. It should have been easy. All I needed to do was say that this was Toby's final service with us, say what the service as about and wish him well in his new …
Autism awareness and me
Autism awareness and me Aspie mind MCI v LIV April is Autism awareness month, so in many of this month's blogs I have mentioned directly how the issue I was talking about has affected or been affected by my Asperger's Syndrome. Not that the others, are not affected this way, Asperger's affects the way I …
Autism on show
Autism on show (and oblong) The Kirklees Autism Show was yesterday. It is good to see the local council taking such a positive stand. I went, I got there at 11am and left at 12 noon. 20 minutes of that time was for coffee and to look through the paperwork. 10 minutes to take time …
Pray (again) for the persecuted church
Three brief things Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 8th April 2018 One: Helping autistic people A very minor niggle, but it is Autism Awareness Month, so I'm putting something in here. To those involved in leading a church service: Do not be afraid to wait until the people reading the lessons or leading intercessions have …
A Mother’s Cry: Can my Disabled Child Ever Become a Christian? | faithmummy
This blog by Miriam Gwynne really touched my heart; I’m sure it will touch yours too so I’m reblogging it. See more of Miriam’s wonderful writing at http://www.faithmummy.wordpress.com It’s Easter Sunday, the very centre of my beliefs as a Christian, that my Lord and Saviour not only died for me on a cross to carry my …
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Church is unwelcoming to Aspies
40 blogs of Lent - Day 32 Welcoming Autistic people to church What is church - Day 1 After wading through the messages to seven churches in Revelation, I am concluding my Lenten blogs with a look at the modern church. I will be looking at it from three negative aspects, then five positive ones. …
Tolerance
You are clearly a tolerant person, who is thoughtful about the needs of other people. So says a quiz on the Guardian web site. So it must be right — uch to the dismay of those who know me. The quiz was called are you as nice as you think you are, so that would …
Making an ass of myself 