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For the last four years, alongside my role at the University of Roehampton, I’ve been working in Circuit in Warwickshire, undertaking a...

An update on my recent diagnosis with Adult ADHD

where are the Church's futurists? I am genuinely interested in finding the modern day Calebs and Joshuas scouting out the unknown future.

a reflection on gender and the church for the Leeds Uni Inclusive Christian Society.

Are you a fixer or a changer? I have already shared in previous posts about the current situation my partner and I share with regard to...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

This is the sermon I preached at an ordination service at the Methodist Conference yesterday afternoon, based on Isaiah 6:1-8 [download a...

Last week, I wrote about how I thought the changing of the titles within the Presidency might give people a better sense of the...

The report from the Stationing Committee makes for interesting/depressing reading. As expected, the number of successful matches in each...

For various reasons, I have been spending a bit of time recently thinking about the Presidency of the Methodist Conference and its...

2 Cor 4:7 But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not...