Category: Personal

The keys to hearts and minds

This article follows on from my last one,  focusing especially on addressing the third challenge I mentioned: how to engage hearts and minds in change. I spent a long time last year writing a book on how to handle change in church better. Clearly a specialist topic you may say! But, during the summer, I …

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CPAS Lead On reviews ‘Better change in church’

This month’s edition of the CPAS  bulletin for leaders, Lead On,  featured a very positive review for our new book on handling change in church, which was great to read: “Mark Twain said that the only person that likes change is a wet baby. Yet, as this book argues, change is both practically and theologically …

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“So what DO you want?”

How many times do you find a difficult conversation with someone provoking this feeling inside. A person can be so awkward and so militant that sometimes it is the only question that we are left with as reason seems to vacated the discussion completely! We all know conversations that rise to this incredible level of …

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