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Sam McBratney
Jul 19, 20223 min read
Locating treasure
Where do we put our energies? reflections on what I wrote two years ago mid-lockdown Interesting to see how little has shifted.
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Sam McBratney
Jun 1, 20225 min read
Where to begin?
Some have noticed that I have maintained pretty much radio silence on social media since Christmas. The more perceptive have interpreted...
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Sam McBratney
Jul 26, 20216 min read
The spaces in between
For the last four years, alongside my role at the University of Roehampton, I’ve been working in Circuit in Warwickshire, undertaking a...
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Sam McBratney
Jun 4, 20215 min read
Neuro-what?!?
An update on my recent diagnosis with Adult ADHD
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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20212 min read
Still Waiting
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,...
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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20217 min read
Agonising
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...
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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Bear in mind
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...
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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Permission to Wound
‘Ordination gives the church a permanent permission to wound.’ I’ve been contemplating these provocative words since they were given to...
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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20214 min read
The joy of being Methodist - or why I like Anglicans, but don't want to be one!
I’ve spent the summer in very good company. From the World Methodist Council to MTSE and IAMSCU, the United Methodist Church, the Oxford...
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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20214 min read
Conference Bites 5 - Why I stood for President
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...
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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Changing Methodism V: A bit of order?
I have been spending the last little while reading and thinking about missional and other forms of Christian community and trying to...
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