When your vacancy eventually ends, the problems won’t necessarily all go away. Or they may be replaced by new ones. Timothy Lee encourages us to be flexible in our thinking.

[This article is from our Summer 2023 back issue. To read back issues dating back to 2015, please activate your subscription] Alan Stanley puts...

We all know that churches can be led by lay people – and in vacancies, for example, often are. Alan Stanley believes this is a good thing.

  Rosemary Walters suggests some practical ways of responding to Bishop Martyn’s vision for the future of lay ministry. ‘What next for Lay...

Alison Hassall is both a Reader in active ministry and a practising spiritual director. She believes the two vocations marry well together, as she...

The Church of England has a problem with the laity, says John Griffiths. Here he argues for a theology of Reader ministry built on the foundations...

  Having recently commemorated 500 years of Reformation, we should keep our eyes, ears and hearts open to God’s Spirit inspiring us to change,...

[This article is from our Spring 2018 issue. To read back issues dating back to 2015, please activate your subscription] In late 2015, the Church of...

[This article is from our Summer 2016 issue. To read back issues dating back to 2015, please activate your subscription] Editor, Heather Fenton,...