Keynotes
Dislocated: Naming the Crisis We All Create
This chapter, the first in the book The New Parish, explains how we lost our capacity to be the “local church” – a body of Christians learning to share life faithfully together in, with and for a particular place...
Rapid Response
Mike Pears - A Rapid response to ‘Dislocated’, Chapter 1 from The New Parish
Martin Robinson - A Rapid response to ‘Dislocated’, Chapter 1 from The New Parish
Faith in the Public Square
Abstract Lord Glasman begins by organizing his thoughts around three key TMN concepts. Discerning our common good takes relationship and time. It has to be located in and with in our local communities. Forming happens inside a shared imaginative space that has been shaped...
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Practices of a Missional People
Alan begins his keynote by affirming God’s creative engagement in our world of destructive social patterns, brokenness and oppression...
Rapid Response
Kyle Small – Rapid Response to Practices of a Missional People by Alan J Roxburgh
On Not Knowing the End at the Beginning
The Fresh Expressions initiative began as a result of the publication of the Church of England report ‘Mission-Shaped Church’[1]. It developed as a partnership between the Church of England and the British Methodist Church, and now includes the United Reformed...
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The Community of the Cross
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...
Rapid Response
Jason Clark - A Rapid Response to “Community of the Cross”, a keynote article by Martin Robinson
Discovering God’s Initiatives in the Midst of Adaptive Challenge
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...
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Practices of Christian Life – Forming and Performing a Culture
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]...
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