The Flying Cassowary
Sam McBratney

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

Yesterday, I was elected Vice President of the faith workers’ Branch of the Community trade union. I became a socialist before I became a...

How did we get here? How is it that a nation defined by its sense of fairplay and reasonableness is now locked in the zero-sum game of...

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...

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

Why is education such a complex topic for British Methodists? Is it because they associate their Church’s involvement in education with...

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

The public sphere is full of talk of Brexit - hard, soft, chaotic, in-name-only. Yet, among the clamour, the voices of the Churches are...

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...

I have been spending the last little while reading and thinking about missional and other forms of Christian community and trying to...

The Irish referendum to repeal the 8th amendment of the Constitution took place at the weekend. That is was won by such an overwhelming...