The science is clear. We are living in a warming world due to fossil fuel emissions. The world’s most vulnerable are already suffering...

These reflections come after spending a day with Hope into Action at their annual conference, Rooted: Homelessness Ends in Community. In particular, they were stirred afresh while listening to the seminar Rethinking Poverty and Our Response with Jon Kuhrt and Rachel Arnold, both shaped by the wider imagination of Together for the Common Good and the work of Jenny Sinclair. For those familiar with these voices, there will be little here that is entirely new. I am simply trying

My friend and colleague Liz Harden was teaching last night on the Mission, Theology and Ministry for the Margins course about trauma. It was on Zoom, and even through a screen you could feel at points how heavy the subject was. But you could also hear from the feedback and conversations afterwards how much students appreciated somebody speaking honestly about it. It got me thinking again about church culture. If I am honest, I think some churches struggle with trauma because

A few rambling thoughts on church growth, “quiet revival”, and ministry in a secular age. Mainly for vicary types and an update from something I wrote a few years ago. —— Over the past year or so there has been a lot of talk about church growth, spiritual openness, and even the possibility of “quiet revival” in the UK. Newspaper articles appear. Podcasts get excited. Somebody notices twenty-year-olds attending Evensong in London and suddenly we are apparently one step away fr