STETS Blog Contributor Archive

Shopping Marathon?

Friday, March 30th, 2012

The government proposes to suspend Sunday Trading Laws in England and Wales during this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. If this eventually paves the way for more permanent relaxation of Sunday trading regulations, all of us – not just the More …

A waste of time?

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

The tiny south pacific island of Samoa greeted the arrival of 2012 very early – thanks to having moved across the international dateline at the end of 2011. They are now in sync with their neighbours and closest trading partners, More …

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

We’re delighted to see that one of our placement supervisors, Gavin Tyte, has just won The Nativity Factor – an ITN and Jerusalem Productions online competition to create an innovative 3 minute film retelling the nativity. Gavin is a professional More …

Something to chew on

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

If you are reading this blog you are probably a digital native, well used to visiting websites. Experts tell us that we now read things differently. Our eyes flit across the page, collecting information from here and there, rather than More …

Inheritance tracks

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

The BBC Radio 4 programme Saturday Live has a feature called ‘Inheritance Tracks’, in which guests are invited to think of the song that they inherited from their parents and also the one that they would pass on to the More …

Drawn onward

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

If you Google® ‘STETS’, the first result is not this website but 3 words translating the German word ‘stets’– ‘always, unfailingly, evermore’. These are good connotations for the STETS acronym – reflecting our trust in God’s unfailing goodness. STETS is More …

A textual difficulty?

Monday, May 24th, 2010

What do you do with a bible that is well past its sell-by date – especially a massive old one that you’ve inherited? It’s too large to store in modern homes. And the language belongs to another era altogether. Take More …