At the end of a master’s degree in Missional Leadership in 2010 I began a personal journey that set up unique opportunities for engagement with society, including a landslide result in local elections, and raised and answered some fundamental questions...

The Missional Network places a high value on discerning God in our neighbourhood contexts. But how do we rediscover our place within that context and why has that rediscovery become necessary? Martin traces the story of a lost connection. He suggests resources to protect the health of a renewed engagement that reside deep within our identity as the people of God...

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Rapid Response

Jason Clark - A Rapid Response to “Community of the Cross”, a keynote article by Martin Robinson

Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar. – Antonio Machado[1] Those of us formed and framed by Western late modernity have tended to believe we can find our way, with enough study, focus and determination. Be it the...

Introduction The Missional Network’s convictions are formed out of an ongoing engagement with a question posited by Lesslie Newbigin over thirty years ago: What is the nature of a missionary encounter with the late modern culture that shapes the West?[1]...

A Rapid Response to Keynote Articles by Alan Roxburgh, Juan Martinez and Martin Robinson A friend of mine recently asked me, “Do you believe that mission is inherently colonial? Do we need to be colonial in order to be effective...

In Western Europe a gap has grown between Christianity and the general culture. This is what we usually call ‘secularization’.[1] It results in the marginalization of the church, repression of the Christian narrative, an increasing alienation of our culture from...

At the end of a master’s degree in Missional Leadership in 2010 I began a personal journey that set up unique opportunities for engagement with society, including a landslide result in local elections, and raised and answered some fundamental questions...