2025 European Lausanne Gathering
In October, 135 leaders from 30 European countries gathered for 4 days in Spain to explore the theme of collaboration. The team from Ireland was 6 - 3 from Northern Ireland and 3 from the Republic. We listened, prayed, discussed, and reflected together over the few days around tables. We explored what the Apostle Paul teaches about collaboration in his ... [Continue Reading]
‘Reading Scripture with Fresh Eyes in 2021’
“Hi, my name is Mike and I’d like to cancel my subscription to 2021. I have been using it for the last seven days, but it is really not to my liking, and it doesn’t match the advertising. So refund please.” So goes a tweet by scholar Mike Bird as ... [Continue Reading]
The Other Crowd
The other crowd. Do you know who I mean? Them. The ones not like us. The ones we would like to be friends with if only they would get their act together and start seeing things my way. What do we do about the other crowd? That question can start ... [Continue Reading]
The Beauty of Sharing Leadership
Several years ago, while studying at Irish Bible Institute, I wrote a reflection on leadership as part of my Master’s dissertation. In it I described my belief that shared leadership can often be slow to change, absent of vision, weak in decision making and abdicate responsibility. I am now convinced ... [Continue Reading]
Embrace the Difficult
First the immediate challenge of this time is that we have been significantly disturbed in recent months. For those of us who like predictability and a reasonable level of security, which is probably a huge majority of us, that causes us to classify these times as difficult. I have a ... [Continue Reading]
