Author Archives: tallandrew

How does the shape of theology affect the shape of church?

Posted on June 18, 2018 by tallandrew

I have recently written a blog which has been published on the SCM Press blog site, based on my forthcoming book, Out of Nothing: A Cross-Shaped Approach to Fresh Expressions. This can be ordered from most online book retailers. You can pre-order direct … Continue reading →

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Mission or accompaniment – do we have to choose?

Posted on June 8, 2018 by tallandrew

In my book, Out of Nothing, I have critiqued the usefulness of missio Dei as a theological foundation for birthing new churches. Roger Walton, for example, critiques fresh expressions of church as being too church-shaped in their mission (‘Have we got … Continue reading →

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Christianity Rediscovered (Vincent Donovan)

Posted on May 30, 2018 by tallandrew

I recently had a post published on the SCM Press website about the effect of Catholic Missionary Vincent Donovan’s work with the Masai of Tanzania has had on fresh expressions thinking, 21st century mission, and on my practice. Follow the … Continue reading →

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Review: If Entrepreneurs Ran the Church

Posted on March 22, 2018 by tallandrew

Peter Kerridge, If Entrepreneurs Ran the Church: New Visions for Old Church, (London: SPCK, 2017). 180 pages. Entrepreneurship is a word that is beginning to move beyond the 1980s stereotypes of money, profit, and capitalism to be applied to a … Continue reading →

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The Church as a Watering Hole? Or Desert Place?

Posted on February 28, 2018 by tallandrew

A few weeks ago I tweeted a quote from Barbara Glasson’s book, Mixed-Up Blessing. Barbara was the Methodist minister assigned to pioneer new things in the city centre of Liverpool. Out of her work came what has become known as … Continue reading →

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The Filling Station: A fresh expression of church?

Posted on January 24, 2018 by tallandrew

Earlier this week I attended the first session of a new Filling Station initiative, in the east of County Durham. Filling Stations have been springing up all over the country, mostly in rural areas, since the first one over ten … Continue reading →

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The challenge of mission…

Posted on February 21, 2017 by tallandrew

The challenge of mission is to go on an adventure of the imagination that enables mission to be done from the inside of the primal worldview and cultures. This leads to an articulation of the gospel that is local and … Continue reading →

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 Pints of View

Posted on September 22, 2016 by tallandrew

Thinking of staring a pub-based fresh expression, I came across a Grove book, written in 2005 which outlines a church’s  efforts to connect to the local pub community (Peter Howell-Jones & Nick Willis,  Pints of View: Encounters down the Pub, … Continue reading →

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Some fresh expressions thinking from 1957

Posted on June 24, 2016 by tallandrew

This is from The Unfinished Task, by Anglican Bishop in Southern India in the 1950s, Stephen Neill. Speaking Southern Indian villages where traditional forms of the church have failed to make headway and proved to be inadequate, and seeking of the larger … Continue reading →

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Pioneer Ministry in New Housing Areas: Grove Booklet

Posted on April 13, 2016 by tallandrew

This succinct new Grove booklet offers a helpful introduction to pioneering on new build developments for practitioners and permission-givers. Penny Marsh and Alison Boulton look at how this has become a contemporary issue, give practical suggestions for pioneers and for those … Continue reading →

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