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, 20214 min read
Why I am a trade unionist
Yesterday, I was elected Vice President of the faith workers’ Branch of the Community trade union. I became a socialist before I became a...
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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Polarities
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...
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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
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, 20211 min read
Light - Love - Life
Why is education such a complex topic for British Methodists? Is it because they associate their Church’s involvement in education with...
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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, 20213 min read
Stuck on Brexit
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...
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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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Sam McBratney
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Safe. Legal. Accessible. Rare.
The Irish referendum to repeal the 8th amendment of the Constitution took place at the weekend. That is was won by such an overwhelming...
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