Breathing life beyond their time: Fresh Expressions and Faithful ‘Failure’
Seasons. Change. Endings. We seem to keep coming back to these themes as we ponder away at FX HQ. “A time for every matter under heaven…a time to be born…
Hopeful, Painful and Honest
As your roving Fresh Expressions (FX) explorer, ponderer and reporter-at-large, I consider myself a fairly clued-up cookie. I’ve seen enough FXs to know that each one is different, and that…
“Can I be a Pioneer if I am also an Evangelical?” A starter for ten….
Every now and then at Fresh Expressions (FX) HQ we notice a ripple of conversation out there in the ether – and, incorrigibly curious folk that we are – we…
To everything there is a seson
‘Dying to Live’: Rural Fresh Expressions Gathering, 22nd-24th May. Seasons, cycles, rhythms and change. Hot topics in any Fresh Expressions (FX) chat – but arguably nowhere more starkly observed than…
Preparing new ground
[siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget] What do housing estate builders and pioneer community workers have in common…? Well, after chatting with Sue Steer – who’s been in post at Lubbesthorpe, Leicester, since September…
Exile and the faithful re-imagination of the Church
[siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget] When we are confronted with experiences of complexity we invariably tell stories. When the people of Israel found themselves in exile they did the same. The experience of…
2016 Looking Back
As we approach Christmas this year some of the FE team were chatting about those things that have encouraged and inspired us most in 2016 throughout the world of Fresh…