{"id":3498,"date":"2020-12-01T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T13:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2020-12-06T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T13:35:56","slug":"introducing-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/introducing-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"
As well as working for a\u00a0publisher, I’m also\u00a0involved on a voluntary or bare-bones\u00a0consultancy basis with a number of other projects. This is one of the latter. I only work outside of work, paid or unpaid, on things I\u00a0<\/i>believe are good – so this is a recommendation, with full transparency that I was paid to give some advice and direction on the project.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Ever since I was a young person, and through some years where I was quite involved with youth work at my local church and in parachurch contexts, I’ve been conscious that we often short-change and patronise young people with the resources we produce for them. Dumbed down, easy answers, poorly packaged and often stapled together – I remember being really encouraged by the physical design of the ‘moleskin-style’ UNCOVER gospels that UCCF produced – the first ‘Christian’ product that I felt had a tangible quality that matched the content and didn’t get in the way of the message.<\/p>\n
I’ve also always had a passion to engage with the Bible – to see in my life and then lives of those around me the fruit of Bible reading. So when a mutual friend put me in touch with a trio of folk interested in producing a\u00a0good<\/strong> devotional resource for young people, I was simultaneously sceptical and intrigued. Three things got me hooked, though, and it’s been exciting to see the finished product come together:<\/p>\n Apply<\/em> came out at the start of December, and they’ve already sold out of their first print run. You can still order a copy from St Andrews Bookshop here<\/a>, or if you want to buy a lot (like, more than 20), you can contact the team directly<\/a>. I think\u00a0Apply<\/em> is a great resource, and I hope to see the team produce more in the same format and style in the years to come.<\/p>\n Check back on this post – I’ve got an\u00a0interview with the team ready to come out soon, and I’ll also share some thoughts on\u00a0<\/i>how<\/strong> to use Apply in\u00a0different ways and contexts<\/i>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As well as working for a\u00a0publisher, I’m also\u00a0involved on a voluntary or bare-bones\u00a0consultancy basis with a number of other projects. This is one of the latter. I only work outside of work, paid or unpaid, on things I\u00a0believe are good … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,390,125],"tags":[1119,941,278,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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