21M – Five Marks of Mission Resource

Whilst working for CMS I was involved in getting a long awaited resource called 21M finished, and it is now available…
21M is an eight-part DVD resource that explores the Five Marks of Mission, which were produced by the Anglican church to help give a broad understanding of ‘mission’. Others might talk of integral mission or [...]

Rene Padilla evening at House244

Following a successful evening with Tom Sine last month House244 is hosting an evening with Rene Padilla entitled ‘The local church as an agent of transformation’. Places are limited so email to reserve a place. Further info here.

Make Believe

Whilst at CMS I’ve enjoyed meeting up with Johnny Sertin and Mike Morris of Ground Works at various times… and as part of their collaboration with CMS they are running their Make Believe course in Oxford.
It’s run over eight weekends from January to July. It sounds like it does something similar to what Tom & [...]

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 [...]

Moving into community…

We’ve talked about it… we’ve read about it… we’ve even dreamed about it… and it’s been a while in the making, but it is now happening… we are moving into a community house!
As of this weekend we will be living intentionally in community – together we will be 7 adults and 2 babies – based [...]

re:mixing our approach

The recent blah…, subverting the empire, with Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmat looking at their book Colossians Re:mixed, was a good day…
Mark Berry gives a good summary of the day… which really followed the flow of the book, which I’ve mentioned before.
The morning sessions helpfully explored Colossians in the contexts of Israel (The Jewish [...]

The ‘why’ of living in community

Just read this at the Mustard Seed House blog – article by Christine Sine about living in community, which resonates with my thinking… seeing community as essential to mission and discipleship:
Noemie did not grow up with a Christian background, but since her time in DC where she had opportunity to speak at length on how [...]

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 [...]

Living as an ordinary radical?… A dialogue with Shane Claiborne

Faithworks, Livability Community Mission and Tearfund are hosting a free discussion evening with Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution (which i’ve just read and will post about soon) and co-founder of The Simple Way community in Philadelphia.
The event is at 7:30pm on Wednesday 30 April 2008 at Church.co.uk, 1a [...]

Brain Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat visiting CMS

I’ve mentioned Colossians Re:mixed before – it’s a great book. The authors Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat are visiting the UK in June – and CMS are organising three events with them.
You need to book a place – costs £20/£15 with lunch – more info and booking online at the following:
Manchester June 5 Birmingham June [...]