Why Modality and Sodality thinking is vital to understand future church
By George Lings. The vocabulary of modality and sodality has been around in missiological circles for nearly 40 years, but is not widely known in God’s church, even among its pioneers, let alone...
View ArticleExperiences of pioneers
By Beth Keith. During the last 4 years I have been listening to and collating the stories of pioneers. Whilst pioneering is often referred to as starting something new I have been struck by how common...
View ArticleLearning from Francis
By Hannah Smith. The monastics were the prime movers in mission for the church for its first 1500 years. From China to Asia to Europe, in the roots of the gospel in each geographical space, you find...
View ArticleGod often does things by pairs
Written by George Lings. Consider a number of pairs of words that are intended to belong together in diverse partnership: Divine and human, heaven and earth, day and night. Or Humans made of dust and...
View ArticleThe hidden depths of a modal life
Written by Laurence Keith. I was talking with a friend about someone else who had experienced a ‘dark night of the soul’. My friend commented “Well they can’t have had a very strong faith for that to...
View ArticleFrom modality to metaphor – finding ways to speak of different modes of Church
Written by Steve Hollinghurst. Metaphors are interesting. The post-modern era has been marked by a growing realization of their importance, echoed in the title of the Lakoff and Johnson classic...
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