Foundation

This is the eighth and final part of this series, bringing us up to the present. It describes: the mature vision for Foundation (as a...

This is the seventh part of Foundation’s story, describing the group's rebirth in 2015 with the return of Iain and the arrival of fresh...

This is the sixth part of Foundation’s story, describing the group's evolution from big alt worship services to a more level pattern of...

This is the fifth part of Foundation’s story. This instalment covers Foundation's first creative peak culminating in the Babel service at...

This is the fourth part of Foundation’s story. This instalment includes the relaunch of alt worship at Cotham Parish Church in Easter...

This is the third part of Foundation’s story (told in “autobiographical” form). This instalment covers the London vs Bristol church...

This is the second part of Foundation’s story (told in “autobiographical” form). In this instalment I describe first impressions of the...

This is the story of Foundation's journey told from the only perspective I can reliably offer - my own. I have started with my...

We are now a little over a year into Foundation in its new home at Cotham, and emerging from lockdown (hopefully just this once). During...

In economics, as in religion, myths and dogma abound. In both, however, an honest and well-informed discussion of the real issues...

Here is one of my favourite poems by the poet Jane Kenyon (1947-1995). Twilight: After Haying Yes, long shadows go out from the bales;...

There is a passage in John Updike’s 1996 novel In the Beauty of the Lilies in which a doubting Protestant minister, Clarence, meets a...

In my most recent reflection I explored the idea of “Romantic Christianity” as embodied in CS Lewis; in particular his treatment of “peak...

"It is time for a new reformation. It is time to find a way of following Christ that offers liberation and welcome rather than control,"...

I wrote in my last reflection that my Christian faith first started to be formed, in my late teens, by "peak experiences" of...

For this week's reflection I would like to share with you Thirty Birds, a spoken word / musical collaboration by storyteller (and...

This week's reflection starts from a passage from Tears and Saints, a 1937 discussion of medieval mysticism by the Romanian philosopher...

Now this reflection is (once again) personal to me, and I'm not offering it as a prescription for everyone or a description of what I...

In this lockdown, moving in churchy circles as I do, I have heard the name of Julian of Norwich invoked a few times. Julian was a...

Here is one of my favourite poems by the Catholic poet Czeslaw Milosz. Gift A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden....