My new book, At the Scent of Water: Growing faith, community and flourishing where you live, gathers what I have learned, often the hard way, about how local renewal actually happens. It is full of stories from ordinary people doing patient work in hard places, including some of my own mistakes. I wrote it for… Continue reading Your neighbourhood does not need another programme. It needs you – by Ash Barker
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‘There is no such thing as society’: revaluating Thatcher’s iconic quote – by Jonathan Thomas
A Conservative minster who clashed with Margaret Thatcher is reported to have said: “The trouble with Margaret is that when she speaks without thinking, she says what she thinks.” Seven words In an extensive interview for Woman’s Own magazine in September 1987 Thatcher said what she thought. In response to over 50 questions, her answers… Continue reading ‘There is no such thing as society’: revaluating Thatcher’s iconic quote – by Jonathan Thomas
To Consume or to Commune – by Alice Fox
Photo from pexels / artwork by Alice Fox Church doors open to our known. We welcome you, say we, Unpacking verses, stacking Sentences of eloquence, building up Us, the main paragraph of our people. What then of them we call The? The bruised, The captive, The homeless, The addict, There, on the margins - There, do… Continue reading To Consume or to Commune – by Alice Fox
Housing First or Humility First? Managing the Charitable Ego – by Ed Tytherleigh
Photo by Helena Lopes on Pexels.com I have worked in housing and homelessness for the last thirty years. During that time, I have had the privilege of leading three charities and of serving as a Director of a large national ‘name’. Throughout all these years I have worked with thousands of colleagues, and the overwhelming… Continue reading Housing First or Humility First? Managing the Charitable Ego – by Ed Tytherleigh
Churches & Halloween: retreat or reach out? – by Anna Price
Anna Price has previously written this for G+T Engaging with the dark; bringing light to Halloween about how her church has engaged their local community on Halloween. The church has a history of retreating within its walls during All Hallows Eve. Buildings get closed and individuals stay home. A time for precaution and locked doors. … Continue reading Churches & Halloween: retreat or reach out? – by Anna Price
Standing at the Crossroads: Rethinking Christian Social Action – by Rachel Arnold
"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it." Jeremiah 6:16 Something remarkable has happened in Britain over the past generation. Across the country, Christians have responded to poverty with an extraordinary growth in social action. Food banks, debt centres, night shelters, housing projects,… Continue reading Standing at the Crossroads: Rethinking Christian Social Action – by Rachel Arnold
Beyond the veil: more than ‘a bad look’ for Lambeth Palace – by Martin Kuhrt
The image of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, presenting the Pakistani cleric Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, with an award for ‘Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation' managed to unite both the National Secular Society and a great many British Christians in bewilderment. The picture itself showed a stark contrast between attitudes to women in Islam… Continue reading Beyond the veil: more than ‘a bad look’ for Lambeth Palace – by Martin Kuhrt
It’s not enough to share a pew, if we don’t share a table – by Bruce Nadin
Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com Read part 1: Resisting ‘Christian’ nationalism & secular progressivism – by Bruce Nadin In my last article I argued that we are all being discipled by something, and that the primary place of Christian formation isn't our social media feed but the life of the body of Christ. But what… Continue reading It’s not enough to share a pew, if we don’t share a table – by Bruce Nadin
Resisting ‘Christian’ nationalism & secular progressivism – by Bruce Nadin
Photo by Aslak Su00f8nderland on Pexels.com We are all being formed by the culture around us. By the news we consume, the social media we scroll, the podcasts we listen to, the voices we give our attention to. And our algorithms are remarkably good at giving us more of what we already think. They build… Continue reading Resisting ‘Christian’ nationalism & secular progressivism – by Bruce Nadin
True Profits: Capitalism as a Force for Good – by Jonathan Thomas
Photo by _ Whittington on Pexels.com There was much to agree and engage with in Tommy Sharpe's recent G+T article condemning the evils of free market capitalism. In the spirit of debate though, here is a counter-perspective. I want to argue that capitalism, for all its faults, is not so competitive, exploitative or as ‘free… Continue reading True Profits: Capitalism as a Force for Good – by Jonathan Thomas
