leadership in ministry
I’ve spent the morning working with a church council who have gathered to think through the question ‘who do we say we are?’. My contribution was to talk through the Child Friendly Church Award and the implications of the scheme. Holders of the award get to stick a big sign on their church telling the world they Read More …
I’ve been off with my colleagues in the Synod Development Team for an overnight at The Beild, a christian retreat in Perthshire. It’s a beautiful place and well worth a visit if you need a small space to meet and think and pray. This window is in the chapel housed in what was originally the carpenter’s workshop. Our meeting Read More …
The Home Office estimated in 2003 that 4,000 women were trafficked into the UK for sexual exploitation. It is thought the figure may have grown since. It may interest you to know that there are approximately 16 million more people trapped in slavery today than there where 200 years ago when the UK abolished it’s Read More …
I bought the Out Of Bounds Church? today. I’m liking it lots! A great mix of emergent church thought and insight with commentary and pointers to music, film, books and websites as you go along. I’ll post more thoughts when I’ve read and digested more. Steve blogs as e-mergent kiwi. Go read his thoughts and his Read More …
Statistics are hard to read so the people at World Mapper have designed so great maps showing the world in statistics in a format that is easy to understand. This one is total population. They have maps of youth literacy, teenage mothers, oil production, deforestation…
I got my first ever email from Ben today. He’s 7! He was logging into his primary school email from my laptop and he sent me an email… Changed days indeed!
My better half is blogging again… B+ is her new incarnation. I’m not sure if the title is a statement of intent or her blood group but whatever it is I’m sure it will be worth a read!