The Fresh Expressions movement is looking to the future, and that may involve some risk-taking, exiting of comfort zones and seizing of missional opportunities. All these themes, and more, were explored during the ‘Following the Missionary Spirit: Going Forward with Fresh Expressions of Church’ conference on 22 November, at the HTB church in London. The [...]
By Jeremy Moodey Your starter for 10: what are the four “Instruments of Communion” of the Anglican Communion? I have been an Anglican for 30 years and had no idea what the answer was. In fact, I could easily have misunderstood the question and volunteered that the instruments were a chalice, a pyx (great Scrabble [...]
In 2012 the Treasury gained almost £53 million from those who died without leaving a will, and the number of probate disputes being dealt with by the High Court has doubled in the last five years. In their Make a Will fortnight, Gloucester Cathedral is trying to help the families of the two-thirds of people [...]
Self-harm is a growing problem among young people in the UK. As part of Church Army’s Hope on the Streets campaign, we share with you “Jenny’s” story Jenny*, who is 25 years old, has struggled with self-harm since she was a teenager – a problem which, according to research from the Mental Health Foundation, affects [...]
By Jeremy Moodey In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wittily observes that “it is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances”. One needs to read this aphorism several times before one realises that Wilde is turning conventional wisdom on its head: that we should be valued on the basis of superficial [...]
We are in a strange place. After nearly a decade of crisis, the much-predicted Anglican schism has failed to materialise, at least in any clear-cut way. Significant new structures have been birthed, notably the Anglican Church of North America, but on the whole the drama has subsided. The Communion lies becalmed and rudderless like a [...]
Bishop Graham Cray, Archbishops’ Missioner and leader of the national Fresh Expressions team, looks at how an opportunity to stop and be still has led to the development of a new community in Nailsea, north Somerset Steve Tilley, Associate Vicar in the Nailsea Local Ministry Group, regularly opens up his own home for [...]
By David Goodhew Cranmer Hall, Durham Sit down, breathe deeply – I have some shocking news to give you. The church in Britain is growing. Yes, I know this sounds mad. The TV and the newspapers routinely depict churches as half-empty and populated by geriatrics. Not a few church leaders and congregation members walk [...]
By John McGinley Over 20 years ago I first pitched a tent in Shepton Mallet at the New Wine Summer Conference. There must be a good reason that I have done this almost every year since, despite a loathing for all things camping. I think Peter got it right when he said on the Mount [...]
[Editor's note: this article appears in the print edition under the heading 'Anglican Life: Church Army.' We would like to stress that the views are of the CEEC and not of Church Army. We apologise for the printing error.] I well remember my first experience of what you might call “raw conflict”. I was [...]
