How to… use your imagination
Many people think creativity is a gift you either have or you don’t. But, says Jonny Baker, it's a more like a muscle we all need to exercise.
Five boxers get ringside baptisms in Romford
Pioneer minister and CMS graduate David Harrigan baptised five members of the Good Shepherd Boxing Community in a unique setting
How to… establish an ethical business
Tim Thorlby on the lessons learned by Clean for Good, a social business giving cleaners a better deal.
Contextual inhabitation
Ed Olsworth-Peter points to the importance of the “where” of pioneer ministry and explores how people relate to their context.
Community development as a basis for becoming church
Sue Steer reflects on her experience of being a pioneer community worker as a new town forms around a tiny village and how church has formed and grown.
Knitting as a means of sharing the good news
Christine Dutton offers a reflection on knitting as encouraging the prophetic, porous and relational church that Clare Watkins and Stefan Paas are calling for in their articles.
The childless women of the bible: a hopeful metaphor for the church
Tina Hodgett playfully explores how the accounts of childless women in the Bible open up new metaphors to help us to reflect on church arriving somewhere surprisingly hopeful.
Some kind of community of people orbiting around a podcast: church in the new environment | Tim Nash and Jonny Baker [ANVIL vol 35 issue 3]
Jonny Baker and Tim Nash in conversation about the Nomad podcast, tracing the ways that it has developed into an online, and in some places physical, community.
Editorial: Church: Inside Out?
James Butler pushes us to reconsider our understanding of church and suggest that the church, and certainly the work of the Holy Spirit, goes beyond our carefully drawn lines and our own expectations.
How to… do pioneering mission with people of all seasons
David Palmer, former CMS Pioneer student, shares his learning from working with older people in Market Harborough
