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Place: personal, prophetic and political

The politics and theology of place: its significance for church mission and for social peace…
20/12/2024
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The Spiritual Poverty of the West

Can African Christianity illuminate what the West has lost?…
26/09/2024
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Staying put

Sally Mann argues that there is something heroic about engaging with place for the long term by staying put…
27/09/2021
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Community, callings and carpets

A story of incarnational life and Christian solidarity in a post industrial Cornish town…
23/11/2024
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Always Open

Too many churches are keeping their doors closed. An open church can fulfil an important role in the rebuilding of our common life…
27/03/2024
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The importance of connection

On the surface this is a story about how relationship with each other and with God makes it easier to face the natural reality of death. But it is also a story about the…
30/03/2024
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All hands to the parish pump

Spirituality is not a personal holiness project. Churches are called to be places that irrigate relationships and which mediate between the realms…
23/02/2024
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Pilgrimages of Grace

The ancient tradition of pilgrimage is an antidote to individualism and a countercultural sign pointing us to the Common Good…
17/02/2023
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The soil of community

Alan Roxburgh advises church leaders to let go of programmes and listen to the life of the Spirit in the neighbourhood…
06/02/2022
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Maranatha

In the spirit of anticipation, amidst the unravelling, a church turns decline into renewal…
18/12/2022

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