a sermon recorded for online worship in the South Warwickshire Methodist Circuit.

I didn’t realise until yesterday that International Workers’ Day on 1st May started in the aftermath of a protest in the United States. Known as the Haymarke...

My first reflection from #NavigatingChange19 is about ecclesiology, provoked by Martyn Atkins.

The new film by Ozon, By the Grace of God, provokes some thoughts of the nature of confidentiality in and beyond the confessional.

It is finished! Methodist Conference 2019 is finally over and all the representatives have returned to their homes in Britain and around the world. For those...

Does conscience threaten Connexionalism in the Methodist Church? I argue it has the potential to do the opposite.

I feel profoundly sad at the minute. As someone who lives with depression, sadness is no stranger, but this is the kind of sadness that is sparked by grief a...

A single cross, Shining in the Darkness, mid Charred fragments Of ancient beams. A people mourn their Mother, who Soaked their tear-stained prayers into her ...

A sermon preached at the Presbyteral Synod of the Birmingham District on 20 March 2019 Why did the lost sheep have to go and ruin things? If you’ve ever watc...

So many people have kept faith with Mark and me as we have weathered the vicissitudes of stationing since November. This comes by way of update on our situat...

Everyone needs allies. The heart of the Methodist faith is our interdependence on others to make us, and keep us, Christian. When individuals and groups face...

As I head to the Susanna Wesley Foundation office in Southlands College each week, I pass a large sign which reads: A reading people will always be a knowing...

The last few months have been hard work and for those friends who have offered support, love, thoughts and prayers, both of us are profoundly grateful. Naive...

Advent has taken on a new meaning for us this year, as we have been involved in the Methodist stationing system. Little did we know that, at this stage, we w...

It is nearly 20 years since I entered Circuit (or started travelling, as they used to call it!). Yet this is the first time I have been through the official ...

It’s easy to think that theology is something we do in our spare time, with a glass of wine in our hand perhaps. It has become something abstract, with conce...

‘Ordination gives the church a permanent permission to wound.’ I’ve been contemplating these provocative words since they were given to me recently and they ...

I came across this phrase recently in a workshop run by the Susanna Wesley Foundation in Birmingham. It’s a curious phrase that describes how I feel a good d...

I’ve spent the summer in very good company. From the World Methodist Council to MTSE and IAMSCU, the United Methodist Church, the Oxford Institute and the Me...

Elections can be brutal - the people speak and the next day, the removal vans take the belonging out the back door as the new incumbent arrives at the front....