Tag Archives: God
Collaborative or Counter-Cultural? – Creative Tension part 1
Continuing his guest series on creative tension, Andy Wier encourages us to look beyond our ‘default setting’. As local churches, how should we relate to other organisations in our community like the Council, Police and secular voluntary sector providers? Should … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Weir, Guest blog
Tagged Christian, Christianity, community engagement, Counterculture, God, Practical theology, Religion and Spirituality
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Rash words are like sword thrusts
Our guest blogger today is Haydon Spenceley. He is 28, a musician, a son, brother, fiancee, Church of England ordinand, wheelchair user and a strong writer about himself in the third person. Really though more than all those things he … Continue reading
Posted in community, Disability, Guest blog
Tagged Cerebral Palsy, Church, Disability, God, hurt, Jesus, Mark, Son of God, Spastic Diplegia, verbal abuse
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Lights in Darkest England
Today our guest blogger is Nick Coke, a captain in the Salvation Army. He tells the story of his churches campaign to achieve the living wage for those in the community. An inspiration, demonstrating how much can be achieved when … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, community, Guest blog
Tagged Canary Wharf, Church, Citizens UK, East End of London, England, God, grace, Living wage, London, love, Salvation Army, William Booth
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The Happiness Course
The Happiness Course has been getting some great attention recently. We were written about in the Telegraph and a great response came from Jim McManus. A few weeks ago the FT published two articles on Happiness as well (The Pursuit of … Continue reading
Building Healthy Communities
Last week we released our latest eNews, within it were a couple of articles – including the last blog post by Adam Bonner on lessons the church can learn from our libraries. We are going to be uploading a couple … Continue reading
Posted in community, Guest blog, Pause for thought..., Uncategorized
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, community, God, healthy, hospitality, Justin Welby
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The post microfiche world – Community Mission lessons from our libraries
Adam Bonner is the Director of the Community Mission team at Livability. He has written this blog for us to challenge the church on how we can learn lessons on being an asset to the community from our libraries. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Bonner, community, Pause for thought...
Tagged Building, Church, community, God, learning, Libraries, London Borough of Sutton, mission, Public library, VHS
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Faith in Health and Healing
Last week four members of the Livability community mission team went on a conference in Birmingham called Faith in Health and Healing. On the conference website, it was introduced as: Christians promote a comprehensive experience of health and healing. In … Continue reading
Posted in community, Disability, Katharine Welby, Pause for thought..., Uncategorized
Tagged Amazing Grace, Birmingham, Christ, Christian, God, Mental health, Trevor Adams
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Individuality vs Individualism – what is Community?
I have found myself thinking more and more about the nature of community. I am passionate about it. I long to see communities thrive throughout the country, where people not only know there is poverty on their street but they … Continue reading
Posted in Katharine Welby, Pause for thought...
Tagged Christian, Church, community, conversation, God, Jesus, neighbour, Thought
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Reality of Conflict
What is conflict? If I disagree with you on a subject, are we in conflict or is that just disagreement? I have spent most of this week in Coventry at Faith in Conflict, looking at this very subject. I was … Continue reading
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