Opinionated Vicar

 Back in the days when books were published on paper, and the literature about Fresh Expressions and emerging church could fit on a single s...

Justin Welby is setting up a new monastic community at Lambeth Palace, to spend 'A year in God's time'. Great idea, you have ...

1. The BBC has a piece on ' 10 ways christenings have changed ', in advance of Prince Georges baptism later today. The last 2 of the...

Update : detailed piece from Steve Hollinghurst on what the CofE is really doing, and how the Telegraph's spin on the story was way of...

A couple of great stories have gone up on the Fresh Expressions site, one of a Car Boot Fair church - something I've long wondered abou...

Part of the Church Growth Strategies conference is an invitation to participating dioceses to talk about what is and isn't going on in t...

Fresh Expressions research in 6 dioceses, with 6 others in process, gave us a blitz of stats and insights from the Church Army's George ...

Claire Dalpra, researcher at the Sheffield Centre, talking about research on Fresh Expressions recently done in 3 Anglican dioceses. Some ...

 In many places the church is saying loud and clear that we need pioneers, which is great and true and I'm sure it is genuine. Pioneer...

Some very simple and helpful stuff from Graham Cray on the leadership qualities required in Fresh Expressions and mission a number of pri...

In a timely response to my post yesterday on Fresh Expressions in the CofE, the Sheffield Centre have published a study on Fresh Expressio...

One of the papers for General Synod this weekend looks at the impact so far of Fresh Expressions: The movement has produced over 1,000 fr...

Hidden in the background papers for this weekends General Synod is some analysis of how £45m of mission development money is being spent in ...

When I was a young Christian all the emphasis was on personal disciplines, particularly of daily prayer and Bible study. Personal discipline...

Yet more blessings upon the Sheffield Centre , who have gone live with an online library of research papers on mission, fresh expressions, e...

I kid you not . This project will examine a rapidly-growing phenomenon called 'Messy Church', that is part of the wider movement c...

Fresh expressions are here to stay – for two reasons. First they are now a proven part of the mission of the churches in this country. The ...

The latest Resourcing Mission bulletin from the Church of England has a paper summarising where the CofE has got to with Bishops Mission Or...

Good message from Rowan Williams on Fresh Expressions, for an upcoming conference in Canada. From the fresh expressions youtube channel . ...

I'm working my way through the new Fresh Expressions DVD 'Making a Difference', which I'll review in a week or two (short r...