When reflecting on Cultivating Desire in Mississippi, I have more questions than answers. However, I wonder if, for the church in the United States and especially Los Angeles (where I live), lingering questions are part of God’s invitation for transformation....

In God’s Companions, Anglican vicar Sam Wells describes his experience of ministry on a deprived housing estate, in which his congregation received a large sum of government funding to lead a community regeneration project. During that process, Wells discovered ‘that...

I committed to walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela on an impulse. A friend casually asked if I would be interested in walking it with him one day. Immediately, without thinking it through, I was hooked and determined to...

There’s a story I once heard of two students. As a rule, Freshers are prone to get into all kinds of antics in the early terms of their university experience. Robert and Beth had only known each other for a...

Six months ago I moved onto an estate in South Birmingham. I joined two other women in a house that had become a light in the area. I moved in with a hope of joining them in increasing that light...

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...

At the end of a master’s degree in Missional Leadership in 2010 I began a personal journey that set up unique opportunities for engagement with society, including a landslide result in local elections, and raised and answered some fundamental questions...