• Team Ministry Model – Where’s The Evidence? - I can clearly remember a question that was asked of our acting Archdeacon at a zoom meeting of local clergy and churchwardens in early May this year. The opening question was simply ‘Why Teams?’ Why did the senior leadership of our diocese believe that Team Ministry was the model for parish organisation that was the … Continue reading Team Ministry Model – Where’s The Evidence? →
• Why Are There Upset, Stressed And Angry Clergy In Portsmouth Diocese? - A job for life is something of a bygone era. Many in our society today know the pain and anguish that can come from redundancy. Sadly more paid clergy are discovering that same pain within the Church of England today. Back in October 2020 Portsmouth Diocese started a process that will lead to changes in … Continue reading Why Are There Upset, Stressed And Angry Clergy In Portsmouth Diocese? →
• Update On The Future Of Ministry At St Paul’s - Back in the autumn of 2020 Portsmouth Diocese embarked on a process of consultations that will eventually lead to the restructuring of many parish churches across the diocese. This started with the diocese asking every deanery to compile a plan for how the churches within the deanery could best be structured to thrive and grow … Continue reading Update On The Future Of Ministry At St Paul’s →

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• Why Are There Upset, Stressed And Angry Clergy In Portsmouth Diocese? - A job for life is something of a bygone era. Many in our society today know the pain and anguish that can come from redundancy. Sadly more paid clergy are discovering that same pain within the Church of England today. Back in October 2020 Portsmouth Diocese started a process that will lead to changes in … Continue reading Why Are There Upset, Stressed And Angry Clergy In Portsmouth Diocese? →
• Update On The Future Of Ministry At St Paul’s - Back in the autumn of 2020 Portsmouth Diocese embarked on a process of consultations that will eventually lead to the restructuring of many parish churches across the diocese. This started with the diocese asking every deanery to compile a plan for how the churches within the deanery could best be structured to thrive and grow … Continue reading Update On The Future Of Ministry At St Paul’s →
• How risk averse are you? - One of my observations over the past months is that how we respond to the rules and regulations regarding Covid 19 indicates a lot about how much of a risk taker people are, or perhaps how risk averse they are. There is a sliding scale of compliance with the regulations from those who pushing, if … Continue reading How risk averse are you? →
• What will change in the CofE actually look like? - Over the past decades the Church of England has divested itself already of all of the easy downsizing options. As I look around our area none of the churches are on their last legs (yet). All have active congregations and all are engaging in some ways with mission and outreach. And there comes the rub, … Continue reading What will change in the CofE actually look like? →
• The Church Is Now Irrelevant To Many In Our Society - At a recent meeting of clergy we were asked to think about how we might restructure our group of churches (the Anglican Church calls them a deanery) if we were starting from scratch. That’s a great question, the difficulty is that we aren’t starting from scratch. We have history in our buildings and our church … Continue reading The Church Is Now Irrelevant To Many In Our Society →
• Chronic Pain Is Coming To The CofE - Is this a once in a lifetime opportunity to set the Church of England up differently for mission and growth rather than decline? It may well be but there will be a heavy cost paid by some. The Church of England is not immune to the financial difficulties that have come from the recent pandemic. … Continue reading Chronic Pain Is Coming To The CofE →
• I’m an Anglican Vicar and I feel like giving up! - One of the things that I have learnt through having depression is that so often it is a silent disease. But it’s only when we start talking about it that we discover that we’re not alone and lots of others are going through the same struggles. We are created by God to be unique, but, … Continue reading I’m an Anglican Vicar and I feel like giving up! →
• I don’t want to be here! - From time to time I’m sure we’ve all felt we didn’t want to be doing what we were doing, whether that was looking after children, being in a church service or going to work. We all have the times the we feel we’d rather be at the beach, or doing something entirely different. I certainly … Continue reading I don’t want to be here! →
• The Breakdown Rollercoaster – How it all started - Why and I writing about this? I hope it will help in three ways. Firstly I hope it will be cathartic to me personally. As an introvert I don’t often share or show what is going on within me. I hope by sharing It will help me. Secondly I hope it may help others locally … Continue reading The Breakdown Rollercoaster – How it all started →
• Ministry, Depression and Coronavirus - It’s ages since I last did any blogging! I hope to do a series of blog posts on my experiences with depression and stress over the past year and this is the first. More to come! I am a vicar of a small Anglican Church. I also am in my 60s and have an underlying … Continue reading Ministry, Depression and Coronavirus →