Mark Rodel is City Centre Pioneer Minister for the Diocese of Portsmouth and Associate Priest in the parish of St Luke, Southsea. He looks at what has been happening at Sunday Sanctuary. Looking at the terms with which we started out, Sunday Sanctuary has failed. Those terms were that if we created something on [...]

Fresh Expressions is a movement from England that has “crossed the pond” and they say, taking up residence in the United States in an effort being spearheaded by many YOUNG Virginia Baptist.  One of them is my good friend Chris Backert, who until recently was pastor of “Imago Dei Richmond” (one of the three congregations [...]

International youth worker, minister, writer and consultant Fuzz Kitto sees Fresh Expressions as a prophetic movement, helping to achieve a ‘miracle’ in the Church of England. Travelling from his home in Sydney, Fuzz meets many people involved in fresh expressions of church across the world. In a specially recorded On demand interview, Fuzz says, What [...]

Today’s changing culture calls for a huge diversity and range of fresh expressions of church. Graham Cray explores one particular flavour of fresh expression in an article from the Reader Magazine, November 2011. Anglican priests and parishes have the ‘cure of souls’ of the whole parish, not just of those who go to church. So we at Fresh Expressions [...]

Every day of advent, Fresh Expressions will be sharing reflections on the coming of Christ and the meaning of Christmas. Please join us on the journey! Follow @freshexpression on  Twitter or  Facebook or view our advent calendar. Featuring tweets from John Sentamu, Juliet Kilpin, Jonny Baker, Andy Frost, Paul Bayes and many more. the word [...]

James Grier explains how the Unlimited youth church begins to be seen in a new light as it becomes a BMO. I was first appointed by the Diocese of Exeter to pioneer a youth church in the city and advise and encourage other expressions of youth church. Unlimited, which looks to reach young people who [...]

The Moot monastic community (featured on expressions: the dvd – 2) offers hospitality and welcome in the heart of the City of London to ‘questers’ or ‘spiritual seekers’. Vanessa Elston, one of the community’s core team responsible for developing mission and evangelism, describes its work. Listen to Vanessa Elston and Ian Mobsby in the Fresh Expressions [...]

Sue Wallace reports on the development of Transcendence, an Ancient-Future mass in York Minster. Going to Transcendence has been compared to stepping into a medieval painting, bathed in light and moving images. It’s a place where you can sit on a cushion and watch the incense smoke curling through the projector beams, lighting up the [...]

The vision and call of Contemplative Fire is revealed in the phrase ‘Creating a Community of Christ at the Edge’. Founded as a networked community by Revd Philip Roderick in the Diocese of Oxford in 2004, Contemplative Fire is now seeing all sorts of new things emerge. Philip explains more. We are a ‘Community of [...]