CW75: Hospitality away from home: Reflections on the Jungle
For eighteen months I made weekly visits to the Calais jungle. Home to ten thousand people on the move, the camp covered a couple of acres of wind-blasted wasteland at…
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CW75: Rural Roundup
Rural churches across the UK are developing creative and innovative ways of engaging with their communities. Here are a few stories we’ve heard over the last few months…
CW75: Growing a rural church
For years, Germinate: The Arthur Rank Centre CEO Jerry Marshall has been enthusing about our resource Equipping for Rural Mission but had never actually done it. Then an opportunity arose…
CW75: Going through the gate
HMP Lowdham Grange is a modern category B prison built on the site of a mid-20th century borstal for boys. Positioned at the top of a hill, its brick and…
CW75: Fresh air, fields and friendship
‘A trip to Sutton-under-Brailes is always a good one! Being in the open fields and fresh air is amazing and very different to Coventry.’ St Catherine’s Stoke Aldermoor is in…
CW75: Younger and deeper
‘What would you say to setting up a residential community of 20s-30s in Charlecote’s vicarage?’ Two years ago this was the question Coventry Diocese’s Archdeacon Missioner posed to me. I…
CW75: A day out in the countryside
People and the DALES is an award-winning outreach project delivered by local charity Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) which enables people from disadvantaged backgrounds to visit the Yorkshire Dales for…
CW75: Brexit: A time for unity
In the last twelve months, Brexit has come to dominate our public, and often our private, discourse. With polarising rhetoric and binary choice between ‘leave’ and ‘remain’ it has left…
CW75: Everybody Welcome!
The concept of hospitality has changed down the centuries. For most of us today it conjures up shared meals with friends or the ‘hospitality industry’, hotels and restaurants – places…
CW75: Whatever you do…
One snowy February morning I was picking up a group of children from our local special needs school. While I was wondering what I was going to find for them…
