Here's another reposted article, this time from 26th October 2012. It was originally part of a chain blog. I've removed the material...

Food banks are now common in the UK; many people are in difficulties because of the heavy cost of housing, ever increasing fuel bills and lo...

Alan Hirsch uses the terms liminality and communitas. I was interested to check how much 'liminality' I could find in church life to...

Choudhrie's steps, Part 2 of 21 < Clergy and laity | Series index | Small and informal > For the second step in transforming ...

Most people understand the word 'church' to mean a building, an identifiable subset of the believers in a town or district, or an ac...

I thought it would be good to repost this from April 2010 as we've been thinking about leadership recently. This old article is a good r...

People following Jesus in Asian countries don't necessarily become part of churches in our Western sense. Sometimes they simply follow Y...

We consider interviews with three church personalities and ask, 'What is the most important objective for the church? What will most ple...

This article considers ways of improving the city or town environment. There are some big projects here, growing trees and plants in the hea...

Help doesn't always come from the places we expect. Community may not be the shape we design it to be. Church structure is better recogn...

On 25th December Jim and some of his friends laid on a Christmas lunch for people who otherwise might have eaten alone, perhaps even spent t...

When we think about the Almighty's presence among his people, clearly there's a difference between his presence personally and his p...

Felicity Dale has just written a great post about community and mission. Do we need to become a community before we launch out in mission? W...

< Prepare the ground | Index | No later items > As we have already seen in previous posts on church planting, a seed has been found...

< 6th August 2003 | Index | 31st March 2004 > Trees seemed to be an important theme in this evening's meeting. We were given a p...