James Butler

Cartoon showing street scene with lots of cars, some of which are on or blocking pavements. One bike is also parked on a pavement. A couple are saying ‘Look - someone’s left a hire bike on the pavement’.

New drawing: Hire bike

Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Latest news letter available here: open.substack.com/pub/enabling...

Preview event coming up next month on contemporary British evangelical practices

Not sure that is nuanced enough Phil. Palliative care is about helping people to die well and with controlled pain. It is about care, not just healing. This is distinct from assisted dying as far as I'm concerned.

TARN Colloquium Theological Action ResearchTaking Stock and Moving Forward: Gathering – Discerning – Learning St John’s College, DurhamThursday 11th September to Friday 12th September2:00 pm on Thursday &#82…

TARN Colloquium - Book now!

Taking Stock and Moving Forward: Gathering – Discerning – Learning

St John’s College, Durham
Thursday 11th September to Friday 12th September
2:00 pm on Thursday – 3:30 pm on Friday
theologyandactionresearch.net/tarn-colloqu...

Lived mission in 21st century Published in Practical Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

An encouraging review of our book 'Lived Mission in 21st Century Britain' from @drjamesb.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two men found guilty of ‘mindless, moronic’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, found to have criminally damaged tree and Hadrian’s Wall

1. There are various lessons that can be learned from the mindless criminality of the Sycamore Gap tree tragedy. But one that has been overlooked is its subtle indexing to toxic masculinity. There are many clues within the case that point to this.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Flyer for webinar. All details repeated on link in post.

Looking forward to being part of the Mission in the Neighbourhood webinar conversation on 13th May. Do come and join the conversation. More details churchmissionsociety.org/blog/events/...

Flyer for webinar. All details repeated on link in post.

Looking forward to being part of the Mission in the Neighbourhood webinar conversation on 13th May. Do come and join the conversation. More details churchmissionsociety.org/blog/events/...

I think @jazzgoat.bsky.social went to Romania on a train.

🚨 Closes on 30 April - still time to enter!

CTE MA Mission Prize 2025

Have you or one of your students completed an MA in #mission, #evangelism, #churchplanting in the last year?

cte.org.uk/mission/coor...

£ prize + opportunity to be published in Ecclesial Futures from Radboud University Press

Open days - Church Mission Society (CMS) Join us in person or online to ask your questions face to face. Meet staff and fellow students in our unique pioneer learning community.

Are you doing creative and innovative things in your church or local community? Are you exploring new ways of being and doing church? Are you involved in mission in new and exciting ways? Check out our open days and see how we can support what you're doing. churchmissionsociety.org/pioneer/stud...

We have opened bookings onto our next TARN training on the 4th and 5th June taking place on Zoom. Particularly timed to suit those living to the east of the UK. Run by Dr Helen Cameron and @drjamesb.bsky.social it offers a conversational and participator intro to theological action research.

This will be a great day. Please consider joining us and potentially giving a short paper in the afternoon!

Our latest Substack newsletter has hit inboxes. In it we highlight an enabling resource from Avec, a podcast from
@theosthinktank.bsky.social and @chinemcdonald.bsky.social, an article from T4CG and a resource from @alisonrwebster.bsky.social. Explore here:
open.substack.com/pub/enabling...

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

If you completed an MA dissertation engaging with themes of mission and related areas, why not enter this prize.

Newsletter 7 - March 2025 This month, habits, women in ordained ministry, and treasure troves of enabling resources.

Our March newsletter is available on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/enabling...

Enabling Skills, now on Bluesky!

TARN Seminar In partnership with Roehampton Practical Theology Seminars (PTS) Thursday 20th February 2025, 11.30am-1pm (GMT) Online – Zoom Just knowing: How do we create knowledge that does justice to marginalized voices? Revd. Jane Day and Dr Helen Cameron, Regent’s Park College, Oxford Reflecting on the Project Violet Research Project More info and register your interest here: https://theologyandactionresearch.net/events/tarn-seminar-thursday-22nd-february-2024-online/

The next TARN seminar is on Thursday 20th February 2025, 11.30 - 13.00 (GMT). Helen Cameron and Jane Day presenting on Project Violet. Register to attend here: forms.gle/drJsgTvSziWy...

@practicaltheology.bsky.social @biaptheology.bsky.social

well done @harveykwiyani.bsky.social - looking forward to this

The Churches Together in England MA prize in Mission 2025 is open

Have you or one of your students completed an MA around #mission, #evangelism or #churchplanting in the last 12 months?

cte.org.uk/mamissionpri...

Winner will get £100 cash prize and the opportunity to be published. Closes 30 April

A great day in Durham for our MA graduation but it was freezing! Thank you #CMS @drjamesb.bsky.social @cathyross.bsky.social
@harveykwiyani.bsky.social @jonnybaker.bsky.social

Yep, the tie gets an outing about once a year! 😀

Cover of the book New Churches: A theology, edited by Will Foulger and Joshua Cockayne.

Really please to have a chapter in this book. In it I develop the starting points of an ecclesiology of pioneer/fresh expressions starting from the spirituality of a number of missional communities. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the book too, which includes chapters from CMS colleagues.

Newsletter 4 - December 2024 Being non-directive, engaging with the local community and a whole bunch of useful tools in this months edition.

I'm involved in putting together this Substack with the intention of drawing together an informal network of those involved in enabling roles around mission, ministry and discipleship. Do sign up if you're interested. open.substack.com/pub/enabling...

Hope it goes well Ben. I'd like to get to this one year.

Today was the MA dissertation class at CMS. Really good to hear how students are getting on at the early stages of research. So many interesting topics - intercultural worship, 2nd Gen African diaspora experience, music, creativity in pioneering and more - excited to see what they discover.

Hi Manon. I'm afraid the training happened on Wednesday so the link expired. Next training is 4th and 5th June.

I'm looking forward to running the first TARN training of the academic year, helping people to get a taste of the practice of theological action research. Still time to sign up if you're interested - starts at 2.15pm GMT - estore.roehampton.ac.uk/conferences-...