Monthly Archives: April 2013
Missionary God in Western Culture
Photos by Jenny Bulcraig This second issue of the Journal of Missional Practice focuses in an area, which is close to the journal’s heart. It takes as its springboard the first of the four convictions of The Missional Network: The...
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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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“A Picture Held Us Captive”: Secularisation and the Christian Mission
It is one of the clichés of historical writing to say that ‘history is written by the winners’ – meaning that the story always looks different when you know how it ends, or think you know.[1] History doesn’t stop, but...
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The Workplace and the Missional God in Western Culture
…Caroline, as well as describing her personal missional journey, suggests how our neglect of the workplace might change, and why it is important that it does for the sake of our ability to be missional and transformational within our secular...
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Faith without Borders: Maximising the Missionary potential of Britain’s Black-Majority Churches
It is now possible to experience African Christianity with its particularity, colouration and idiosyncrasies without leaving the shores of Great Britain. Migration, particularly in the last thirty years, has led to the proliferation and growth of Britain’s black-majority churches. To some degree their character has been shaped by the need for social and cultural identity negotiation within these migrant communities. Over time the membership of Britain’s BMC churches has continued to be Black British and first generation African immigrants...
Rapid Response
Iain MacRoberts - A Rapid Response to Faith without Borders by Babatunde Adedibu
Mission, Multiculturalism, and the African Immigrant Church: A Rapid Response to Faith without Borders by Babatunde Adedibu
It was Walter Hollenweger who once said that ‘British Christians prayed for revival, and when it came, they did not recognize it because it was black.’[1] There is some truth in his observation. The subject of multicultural Christianity is new...
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A Rapid Response to Faith without Borders by Babatunde Adedibu
Adedibu’s stimulating paper has challenges for both the Black-Majority Churches (BMCs) and the indigenous white-majority churches. While the BMCs are challenged to develop ‘transcultural mediators’ who are able to contextualise the Gospel for the wider, largely secular postmodern culture, the...
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The Discoveries of a Student Minister
There’s a story I once heard of two students. As a rule, Freshers are prone to get into all kinds of antics in the early terms of their university experience. Robert and Beth had only known each other for a...
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The Unexpected Mission: Jesus and Simple Community
Six months ago I moved onto an estate in South Birmingham. I joined two other women in a house that had become a light in the area. I moved in with a hope of joining them in increasing that light...
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Understanding Generation Y – A Dummies Guide for Aging Pastors
In January 2011 I commenced work on the final stage of my MA in Missional Leadership, a dissertation of 20,000 words. As a church pastor in my late fifties, with three sons aged between 18 and 30, I was keenly...
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