christmas

happy christmas!

it's a weird one admittedly but happy christmas! this image seemed rather fitting this year...

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December 25, 2020
advent / art

follow the light

jen and i cycled in on what turned out to be a wet and windy evening to go round the nine elms advent trail. it's quite a big area and…

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December 20, 2020
Books

on our doorstep

i loved this anthony gormley exhibition event horizon of figures around the hayward gallery in london back in 2007 which is where the photo is from. this phrase probably seems…

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December 18, 2020
advent / art / worship tricks

nine elms advent trail

betsy blatchley is a pioneer in nine elms which is a huge new housing area near battersea power station just south of the river thames in london. the focus of…

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December 17, 2020
advent / worship tricks

angels over hoxton

ben bell loves advent! when he was a youthworker he always produced something creative and now he is a priest he is still up to his old tricks i am…

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December 16, 2020
pioneer

zoom graduation

we had cms pioneer graduation on zoom this year. it's tough for students not being able to gather but the group that had planned it did an amazing job and…

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December 14, 2020
poetry

posters

the baker boys (harry and joel) have teamed up to create some posters of lines from harry's poems - see harry baker's store. i loved his recent poem impossible

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December 14, 2020
create

just imagine – free webinars on being creative

i get asked a lot about how you come up with ideas. so i have set up a series of four webinars for one hour each exploring that question. each…

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December 6, 2020
mission / theology

academic ostriches and decolonising the curriculum

we had a morning this week exploring what it might mean to decolonise the curriculum in the pioneer training we do at cms. anthony reddie led the conversation and was…

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December 4, 2020