Culture
Dislocated: Naming the Crisis We All Create
This chapter, the first in the book The New Parish, explains how we lost our capacity to be the “local church” – a body of Christians learning to share life faithfully together in, with and for a particular place...
Rapid Response
Mike Pears - A Rapid response to ‘Dislocated’, Chapter 1 from The New Parish
Martin Robinson - A Rapid response to ‘Dislocated’, Chapter 1 from The New Parish
Faith in the Public Square
Abstract Lord Glasman begins by organizing his thoughts around three key TMN concepts. Discerning our common good takes relationship and time. It has to be located in and with in our local communities. Forming happens inside a shared imaginative space that has been shaped...
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Together at God’s Table: How Practicing Hospitality Shapes Our Imagination
In the missional conversation, there has been a lot of talk about the need for a new imagination in the church but less attention to how imagination is actually formed and how we might get there. This paper will examine the bodily formation of imagination and will suggest that Jesus was on to something vital when he sent his disciples two by two to be hosted by Samaritans...
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Are we post-community? Challenges to Christian faith and mission in a rapidly urbanising world
This article defines community as ‘a sense of belonging that is the fruit of common commitments and personal investment’ and explores the art and nature of community building for mission within the context of a rapidly fracturing, individualising and urbanising world...
Rapid Response
Alan Roxburgh – Rapid Response to ‘Are We Post-Community’ by Ash Barker
“A Picture Held Us Captive”: Secularisation and the Christian Mission
It is one of the clichés of historical writing to say that ‘history is written by the winners’ – meaning that the story always looks different when you know how it ends, or think you know.[1] History doesn’t stop, but...
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Understanding Generation Y – A Dummies Guide for Aging Pastors
In January 2011 I commenced work on the final stage of my MA in Missional Leadership, a dissertation of 20,000 words. As a church pastor in my late fifties, with three sons aged between 18 and 30, I was keenly...
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