Accountability – Footsteps 76

Whilst in Zambia I helped put together a case study of the work we were doing in the run-up to elections with local communities and would-be MPs… since then it has taken on a life of it’s own through the power of the web and global networks… apparently it appeared in the briefing documents for [...]

Rene Padilla in the UK

The CMS Crowther Centre regularly welcomes experienced mission thinkers and practitioners to help reflection and learning… and one of the things the community house we are part of will be doing is hosting these thinkers – known as the missiologist in residence…
The first such missiologist to join us will be Rene Padilla (‘South American [...]

The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne

I’ve been trying to blog about The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne for a while now… but somehow every time I think about it I can never really sum it up. But that is probably because it is such a simple book about the story of a community of hopefuls [...]

Making her traffickers pay

A few weeks ago I mentioned I’d be leading an Encounter team to Bangladesh in October to see the work of the Church of Bangladesh Social Development Programme (CBSDP), who are involved in highlighting the issues of human trafficking…
News last week on the CMS website shares the story of Halima, who was sold by her [...]

Easter e-card – New Life*

As I was thinking about Easter… the pain and suffering of the events of Holy week as Jesus was condemned to death – and then the new life we celebrate in the resurrection of Jesus – I reflected on what that ‘new life’ really means… and so I thought of Alex in the photo above.
I [...]

the slave tree – action tip

I have mentioned Freedom Day before. Recently, anticipating that this day to mark the end of slavery is just around the corner (25th March), we went in search for the famous slave tree in Ndola town and a local history lesson.
Swahili slave-traders used to frequent the area around the tree – meeting under the shade [...]

Action Tip no 1: Freedom Day – 25th March

The 25th of March 2007 is Freedom Day, which this year will mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Today twenty-seven million men, women, and children are still enslaved around the globe, so I am kicking off the Action Tips series with a look at the things planned to commemorate the [...]