“Faith is the foundation”

Helen Harwood talks to undergraduate student Laura Evans about friendship, inspiration and starting on the pioneer journey.

The open table

Johnny Sertin surveys a landscape of hope and healing across post-Christian Britain

Hack to the Future – at Greenbelt and beyond

CMS web developer Madeline Linnell has news about a new project to hack solutions to pioneer problems

Awe and wonder

The CMS Certificate reawakened Sarah Carney's creativity and gave her a vision for an art exhibition.

By God’s Grace

A massive health scare took first year diploma student Paul Latham to church. An astonishing recovery led him to put all his skills and energy into God's service.

Working on our posture

Activist and author Shane Claiborne paid a visit to Church Mission Society for a lively conversation about mission.

Everywhere you look, grace lives

Tina Hodgett travelled from Somerset to Seattle to be inspired by a very place-based conference with a focus on restoring neighbourhoods.

Lay Pioneering and Thriving in Mission – a New Grove Book

We need to listen more carefully to the experience and gifts of informal, grassroots pioneers, says James Butler, introducing his new Grove book on lay pioneers.

My word – indigenous!

Jonny Baker enthuses over the latest issue of Anvil: we have so much to learn from indigenous perspectives

“Informed and transformed”

Helen Harwood talks to Godwin Sottie, one of our year one African Christianity MA students. Because the course is online, students can join from anywehre in the world - Godwin is based in Ghana.

Video: Jay Mātenga interview

Jay Mātenga shares his personal backstory as well as the richness that comes from Indigenous perspectives on faith.

“I’m not done until I’m done”

Anti-FGM campaigner Ann-Marie Wilson shares her hard-won wisdom on how to keep going in mission