Wilful Blindness – why we ignore the obvious at our peril – a review

I don’t know how many reviews have been held on things that have gone wrong and how many enormous documents have been written to change practises and to make sure “things don’t ever go wrong again”. Thousands upon thousands I imagine. And things do go wrong again. This book, Wilful Blindness by Margaret Hefferman, looks [...]

Twentieth anniversary edition of SALT Magazine

Not only did we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Springfield Church this morning with a service at which the Archbishop of Canterbury presided and preached (and was interviewed!) but we have also published a special edition

Leaders Away Day – vision for the future

Last Saturday 40-50 leaders at Springfield Church gathered to look at some the areas that we believe are vital for the health and growth of the church going forward.

Rob Bell and what struck me about his leaving message….

Rob Bell’s final “epistle” has been preached at his church Mars Hill. He is leaving the church that he founded and going off to California to work on a Drama project with the guy who wrote the hit TV series Lost, Carlton Cuse.

Ten reasons why you should take a church staff team away

I was at one of our congregations on Sunday when someone (quite reasonably) asked why the staff team had several days away last week. It’s a reasonable question and one I thought worth making the effort of a post about because it may help people, not only in Springfield, why it is so important.

Staff away days

It’s been a great few days away as a staff team. Bill has led most of the sessions looking at the different areas of the church and where we can see what changes we need to look at and what we need to focus on as a staff team.

Hand-raising and the first day away

Well the staff are away for a few days to spend time working as a team and looking at various ways that we can work even better together and where we believe that God is leading us.

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Great staff away day

It was great having our staff away day yesterday at St Andrew’s, Edenbridge.

How to be nice to curates – part ii

Well I got back yesterday from three days in the Surrey countryside looking at the vexed issue of “how to be nice to your new curate” – otherwise known as Incumbent Training.

How to be nice to curates – part 1

Well I’ve just started my second day of a three day residential course on “How to be nice to your shiny new curate”. Well of course that isn’t the title. It is a course for Training Incumbents. It’s not only curates who need training but its also the trainers who need training.