Showing posts with label improvisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label improvisation. Show all posts
Friday, 4 October 2013

Don't run across the rug: FoodBanks, Alpha and other franchises

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On one of those rare evenings when both Janey (my wife) and I were at home together, with a bit of time to spare, we were chatting over dinn...
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Thursday, 2 May 2013

Children, Community & Sustainability in tough times (Part 2)

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In Part 1 , I outlined our 'instinctive' approaches - shaped by our current social and political climate and its dominant language o...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Children, Community & Sustainability in tough times (Part 1)

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Here's a fuller version of my talk last week to the Christian Child Care Forum. (The link to the PowerPoint slides is here .) Thi...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Children, Community & Sustainability in tough times

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I was asked to 'do some theology' for the Christian Child Care Forum annual conference, which met yesterday in Birmingham, focusing ...
Thursday, 7 March 2013

Our Community Passion Play

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Phil Howkins is one of those people who’s very hard to say No to. His enthusiasm (and he’s got bucket-loads of it) is infectious, and yo...

Making sense of 'mission', Hodge Hill style

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On a recent training day for a colleague I'm currently supervising, we were presented with the following model for the 'journey of ...
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Sunday, 24 June 2012

‘Open wide your hearts’– ‘broken’ neighbourhoods, ‘troubled’ families, poverty… and a different story…?

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A lot of stories are told about areas like ours. The Daily Mail labelled us last year the seventh most ‘workshy’ community in England (base...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

Jobs, a ‘local economy’, improvisation and… church?!

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I am perhaps the last person qualified to write about jobs. I have one – of a kind. I have also spent a small fraction of my life on Jobseek...
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011

How do we respond? (A sermon after the ‘riots’)

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In the face of the events of the past week, how do we respond? Our faith demands we ask the question – not as Daily Mail readers or Guardian...
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