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
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.