built on tried and tested approaches and reflection on 30 years of pathfinding in the faith sector and aims to build a level leadership fluency where you naturally use all the tools in you kitbag and can grab the right one without even thinking about it!
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Sundaypapers.org.uk is 21
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Three images of Trickster a hare a fox and joker
My blog Sunday papers (a cooperative look a mission, life and church) is celebrating 21 years this month. I’ve looked back through the posts and a regular theme has been how I have used Trickster in challenging and developing systems. www.sundaypapers.org.uk?p=4306
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Flags | SUNDAY PAPERS – THE SUPPLEMENT
Driving back north on Wednesday I saw a lot of flags but one St George’s flag was emblazoned with the words ‘All welcome’. Which i think captures well the powerful emblem at the heart of England’s story, one capable of both division and unity. Read more at www.sundaypapers.org.uk?p=4280
29.08.2025 10:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the violence of endless growth | SUNDAY PAPERS – THE SUPPLEMENT
This week blog offering seems apt as I’m adjusting to a different way of being and I can’t help think that maybe as I look for new jobs there could be a level of complicity in this violence? www.sundaypapers.org.uk?p=4233
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Last day with the diocese fb.watch/Br8C9_7l1e/?
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There’s some major shifts in spirituality tomorrows post picks this up again if interested.
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Re-enchantment | SUNDAY PAPERS – THE SUPPLEMENT
Re-enchantment - what have 3.5 billion gamers and nature got to do with spirituality and mission. www.sundaypapers.org.uk?p=4255
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My Black Church Now Owns a Racist Logo
This isn't just a legal victory; it's a reversal in the tradition of Jesus.
"The reversal of power that recently granted my church the rights to the Proud Boys logo echoes a biblical tradition of reclaiming what was meant for harm and using it for good." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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SUNDAY PAPERS – THE SUPPLEMENT | A CO-OPERATIVE LOOK AT LIFE, MISSION, EMERGING CHURCH AND ALL THAT
the tension between what/how we know and what we are becoming stark in the church. Believe less, this weeks blog reflects on Alastair Macintyres passing and the gift of After Virtue and its implications for the mixed ecology. Www.sundaypapers.org.uk
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Hope is muscle | SUNDAY PAPERS – THE SUPPLEMENT
Hope is a muscle not wishbone or whisper, but sinew and tendon that flexes beneath the skin with every reimagined dream of a better world.
Hope is a muscle not wishbone or whisper,
but sinew and tendon
that flexes beneath the skin
with every reimagined dream of a better world.
It is not fragile,
but the steady clench
of hands in the dirt,
the slow…..
Read the rest at sundaypapers.org.uk?p=4214
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Building Communities That Honour the “Other” and resist unconscious capitalist bias. | SUNDAY PAPERS – THE SUPPLEMENT
What’s late stage capitalism, eco theology and Thomas Merton got to do with community building and the emerging church? www.sundaypapers.org.uk?p=4191
03.06.2025 19:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Towards an Entangled Ecclesiology | SUNDAY PAPERS – THE SUPPLEMENT
Following on from the post on Hopium which seemed to get a lot of traction I wanted to revisit and update the series of posts I did on rethinking church nearly 20 years ago as so much of theology has shifted. The church, as we have inherited it, is a curious organism. We gather, we sing, we listen, we disperse. But beneath the surface, a tension still simmers when not masked hopeium. A innate sense that the forms and definitions we cling to are no longer fit for the world we inhabit. As I wrote years ago, western Christianity’s subcultural weakness is not simply a matter of style, but of substance—a deep-rooted commitment to evolutionary tweaks, wrapped up in the idea of progress and an unconscious bias shaped by capitalism. So revolutionary re-imaginings are not given the space needed for real change. We are, perhaps, rearranging the furniture in a house whose foundations are already crumbling. We have mistaken the kingdom for the church, and in doing so, we have shrunk the wild, inclusive, boundary-breaking movement of Jesus into something manageable, measurable, and ultimately, exclusive. The “mustard seed” has grown, yes, but what has taken root in its branches is not always shelter for the world’s birds, but often a haven for scavengers. The vultures of our own dualisms, our own need for security, our own reluctance to let go of the white make sky god reside in our branches and we welcome them both knowingly and unknowingly.
20 years ago I published a mini series of blogpost that got 1000s of visits. Today’s post revisits and updates that 20 yr old thinking and blends with recent Hopeium and eco theology thoughts. Am I stuck in the past or onto something? sundaypapers.org.uk/?p=4185
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Hopeium, the church, and change | SUNDAY PAPERS – THE SUPPLEMENT
Early morning blogpost triggered by some of the revival talk NB not a criticism of what maybe happening… www.sundaypapers.org.uk?p=4178
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Diocese of Carlisle -
Vacancies
- Network Youth Church Leaders & Trainee Leaders
Our Network Youth Church team is recruiting and we have roles for experienced youth ministers and for those looking to get into youth ministry with fully salaried and supported training spaces that would lead to long term roles www.carlislediocese.org.uk/vacancies/ne...
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Spare seats and Seeds
Let us have spare seats at the table &cushions for the weary,
Bring in patio chairs so strangers can sit
Extend the table with what you have at hand
Replenish the plates, and fill chipped mugs with wine,
Let conversations till the soil of the soul and sow seeds of hope.
09.03.2025 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump administration is considering pausing all military aid to Ukraine - report
This comes after Trump and Vance asked the Ukrainian president to leave the White House early.
Trump and Vance ran a televised scam today. What all America saw was a premeditated hoax to justify cutting off aid to Ukraine. Nothing Zelenskyy did was offensive or disrespectful—but that was the line Trump and Vance had clearly decided to use beforehand to justify what they and Putin wanted.
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I love that in the chaos of the world that shows up in my timeline there’s this bloke who posts “here is a nice mushroom”. It’s a moment of joy, serenity and reconnection.
17.02.2025 15:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thinking on Zizek “Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.” In relation to how powerful people operate and how some verbally signal their intention eg Trump and others signal differently and yet our response is still culturally conditioned
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I seem to have a voice in my head that reinforces a sense of disempowerment when I turn on the news or social media that says something along the lines of “what on earth have they done now?” It seems an apt precursor for a multitude of current contexts, Trump, Institutional church, Uk government.
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Not so familiar with Barad but not sure I can see that much difference between AR and PT except the obvious G-d idea. Are they same but differently rooted disciplines?? If so then is the confluence around ontology and isn’t that what Keller is already doing in part through the theopoetics lense?
09.01.2025 20:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wonder if the connection points are around a relational participatory ontology, so process theology maybe useful. I used ideas of unfolding habitas and sobornost as a base in Here Be Dragons but think Cobbs process work on the “lure of god” more helpful but not sure it deals with entanglement well
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PhD student in Christian Ecotheology/spirituality; HE tutor Missional leadership; Spiritual Companion; faith and justice; Grandma and loving it!
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Writer of folklore and Haiku poetry at The FolkLore Press; Botanist; Druid, alias the Bard of Cumberland; contemporary artist; filmmaker at Land of Lore Films; tales in Cumbria Lakeland Walker magazine.
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Researching faith and learning using theological action research approach. Teaching in mission and ecclesiology. Working with pioneers and mission practitioners.
We train women and men to serve as priests in the Church of England, to proclaim the Good News of Christ and celebrate the sacraments. We share our grounds and our prayers with the monks of the Community of the Resurrection.
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