Opinionated Vicar

After depressing everyone with the latest CofE membership stats  the other day, it was encouraging to read some very good news in this Gener...

It would seem an obvious thing for a church to prioritise evangelism. Jesus parting words were 'go and make disciples of all nations...

Like a nervous Jacob sending his flocks, wives and children ahead to placate his wronged and hairy brother Esau, the Church of England relea...

It wasn't so long ago that my Diocese released a course for all its churches, including a talk from a senior staff member who argued tha...

I'm still off blogging for Lent, honest, just a brief interruption to commend the new Evidence to Action website. It's a set of res...

update : a couple of days after this post, the Bishop of Blackburn raised the threat level in his diocese and has put them on notice that t...

Do you ever have those chats where the other person takes ages to get round to what they wanted to say in the first place? It's felt a b...

The latest 'Manna' , the Bath and Wells diocesan magazine, has an interview with our new bishop, Rev. Peter Hancock. Carefully avoi...

I'm preaching on the Magi tomorrow, strange people for God to put at the front of the queue to worship Jesus, happy to travel hundreds o...

...a question I'm very interested in, given that it's a major thread of my work here in Yeovil. The Church of Englands new 'Chur...

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...

Ok, last post in the series from the Diocesan Church Growth Strategies conference last week, see all the rest here , including case studies ...

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 ...

High Leigh has wifi, so here's a few quotes from the first session of the Diocesan Church Growth Strategies conference, from a very qu...

It's both encouraging, and slightly discouraging, to find that both the CofE and the Methodist church now have a good set of resources t...

The recently published ' Future of Britain' report backs up Justin Welbys comments about the recession being a depression. Page 1 ...

How welcoming is your church? How welcoming is the building? How good is your publicity? Nice, general, impossible to answer questions, guar...

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

I came across the following snippet in an Anglican course designed for local churches. It's an audio interview, and I'm still chewin...