{"id":135,"date":"2010-01-31T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenwilkie.com\/churchnew\/?p=135"},"modified":"2013-05-30T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T08:45:42","slug":"life-and-work-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Life and Work magazine, Feb 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lwcover0210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-136\" title=\"lwcover0210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lwcover0210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Carers Special.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Around one in eight of the population of Scotland are thought to be voluntary carers, saving the economy over \u00a37 billion. Jackie Macadam focuses on carers&#8217; issues and the Church&#8217;s involvement.<br \/>\nA Caring Church &#8211; Syd Graham, convenor of CrossReach, discusses the contribution of carers and how the churches can support them<br \/>\nSeeds of Hope &#8211; The Sunflower Garden, a CrossReach project working with young carers<br \/>\nA Quilt of Love &#8211; The work of a support group for families who care for the children of addicts<br \/>\nA Carer With Connections &#8211; Profile of carer, campaigner and church elder Isobel Allan<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Securing the Reformation<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor Peter Howie offers a portrait of the life of John Knox<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Growing Church<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the first of a series looking at churches which are bucking the trend of falling numbers, Thomas Baldwin visits Arbroath: St Andrew&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Lent to Pentecost<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Rev Martin Allen starts a new series guiding readers through this period of the Christian year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Service, not Sacrifice<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Moderator encourages readers to sacrifice their time in service to mark Lent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Too Harshly Judged?<br \/>\n<\/strong>The latest Biblical figure up for reputation rehabilitation is the Apostle Peter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spending Cuts or..?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Church of Scotland&#8217;s Head of Stewardship, the Rev Gordon Jamieson, reflects on the need to prioritise and prune<\/p>\n<p><strong>Restoring Economic Faith<\/strong><br \/>\nDr Murdo Macdonald focuses on the church&#8217;s responsibility to rebuild trust in financial institutions<\/p>\n<p>Plus Glasgow Presbytery, Paisley Abbey, all the regular columnists, news, letters, reviews and crosswords \u2013 all for just \u00a31.60.\u00a0 To subscribe, contact your church&#8217;s Life and Work co-ordinator or see the magazine for postal subscriptions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carers Special. Around one in eight of the population of Scotland are thought to be voluntary carers, saving the economy over \u00a37 billion. Jackie Macadam &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wider-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}