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

So how Christian is Halloween?

Halloween is the most Christian festival, says American pastor Phil Wyman

Pioneering Mission is…a spectrum

Mapping the spectrum of pioneer ministry

Our Hammyhill

How a local community have been participating in transformation with God and with their locale

Mission and place

The significance of place and geography in mission in a world where many feel displaced, dislocated and precarious.