Monthly Archives: April 2014
Discovering Evesham
I visited Evesham in 2009 for the Northumbria Community Easter Workshop. Easter Workshop is an annual event, but normally centred on the Community’s mother house in Northumberland. But this year I, with around fifty other Community people, dined in church...
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Missional Encounter at a Norwegian Hotel
The pastors of the Norwegian Mission Covenant Church gather once a year for a four day retreat. We have a long history of meeting at Christian resorts, but for the last two years we have for various reasons met at...
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Planting in the Forest of Dean
Viv Presott is an officer in the Salvation Army. This is the story of her church plant at her home in the Forest of Dean. The Forest of Dean is an unusual place in many ways. It is located on...
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Book Review: Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton’s Culture and the Death of God is a dense tour-de-force that launches one through the ways modernity, in its multiple forms, has sought to frame all of life without reference to God. More than a decade ago the...
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Book Review: Breaking Calabashes: Becoming an Intercultural Community, by Rosemary Dewerse
The church tribe I belong to, the Baptist Union of Victoria in Australia, will be exploring in 2014 how we can be ‘Better Together’. Like many churches in the Western world, we desperately want to re-orientate ourselves around mission. We...
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Book Review: The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens and Dwight J Friesen
As a pastor I’ve served Auburn for a little over 4 years. It still feels like early days but this is the longest I have been in ministry in one place, and the longest time since leaving school I have...
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