My life as a minister 'Without Appointment'.

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...

‘Risk’ is a word on the lips of many of our Methodist leaders at the minute. They call us to take more risks which usually means...

On Wednesday 13th June, 2018, the Susanna Wesley Foundation hosted a conference on 'Leaderful Church?' Among the contributions was a...

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

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...

The World Methodist Council has finished its latest session in Seoul, Korea, and members like me have returned to our homes with many...

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...

Since I wrote the original post, the Church of England General Synod have discussed and voted on the report. It has passed, albiet with...

Getting people to talk about sex, gender and relationships is not the easiest task in the world. Getting Methodists to do it seems even...

When Methodist clergy get together, one of things we do is sing! And the Wesley hymn, 'Captain of Israel's host', is often on our lips. A...

We've been meeting as the European Methodist Council at a critical time. Inevitably, the topic of some of our sessions - and many of our...

'How many Methodists does it take to change a light-bulb?' 'Change?! Change!?' I'm on my way back from the excellent Changing Church...

Note to self: don't start a blog-series unless you've got at least two of them written already! I wrote the first of these 'Changing...

As I have a long train journey ahead of me, it gives me the time and space to think aloud. Some of the stuff I write now has been kicking...