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Published by Jeremy Fagan on 30th April 2023

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Published by Jeremy Fagan on 22nd November 2022

Navigating Uncharted Journeys through Values

Contemporaneous notes from the fourth speaker session at the MODEM Conference 2022. Jackie Le Fevre speaking about core/sacred values – values that you just can’t go against. Discovered this when submitting a project for a degree, and couldn’t bring herself to break one of her core values (do you need to kill animals to study…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 22nd November 2022

Uncharted Journeys – towards a future story

Contemporaneous notes from MODEM’s 2022 Conference, session 3. Rt. Rev. Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy, Bishop of Willesden, talking about the role he had in Leicester diocese, when he was trying to make the Church of England more representative of the community that it serves. How do we inhabit an emergent process of cultural change? Keeping definitions of…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 21st November 2022

Sarum College’s Uncharted Journey

Contemporaneous notes from MODEM’s 2022 Conference, second speaker session. UPDATE – James’ slideshow is now available to download below. Rev. Prof. James Woodward is talking about an uncharted journey taken as leader at Sarum College through the pandemic. This consists of a number of stories, interlinking and at times conflicting stories, that happened, and is…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 21st November 2022

Uncharted Journeys

Contemporaneous notes from the 2022 MODEM Conference at Sarum College, first speaker session. Professor Margaret Heffernan is opening the conference talking about her book, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future. She was brought up as an Episcopalian in the US, and has attended a village church in the UK since she’s been here. Uncharted came…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 7th October 2019

Good Conversation in Church

From the Chair – David Sims Conversations are breaking down everywhere. In the UK there is much discussion about the breakdown of our national conversation, as we move from not being able to talk about death and religion to finding that we cannot even talk about our different views of a customs union. Conversations between…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 1st April 2019

2018 MODEM Conference Report: Power and Powerlessness

Conference report from David Sims and Sue Miller The theme of our 2018 Conference was ‘Transforming communities: power and powerlessness’. Our speakers were Nigel Rooms and Anna Ruddick, with poetry from Lucy Berry. Both Nigel and Anna addressed the theme of power and change in the church and community, and addressed this from the perspectives…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 12th September 2018

The Ghosts of Leaders Past, Present and Future

At the beginning of September, we’re often encouraged in the church to start to plan for Christmas. So naturally my thoughts have turned to a Christmas Carol, and the figures of the three ghosts. I’m sure that Dickens’ novella has been seen as an allegory for leadership elsewhere, but I was wondering how many people in…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 12th September 2018

Could you be MODEM Secretary?

Our Honorary Secretary, Derek McAuley, completes his second three year term as a Trustee in December this year, and this is the maximum time that our Trust Deed permits anyone to serve. Derek has been an excellent Secretary, which means that he leaves the role in very good shape, and will be happy to be…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 12th September 2018

From the Chair: Developing Saints and Developing Heroes

Too many years working in Business Schools have made me wary of discussions about ‘ethics’, which have often either entailed codes that are too boring to remember, or have attracted the attention of those who have big problems with behaving ethically. Of course this is unfair – there have been some pearls of excellent and…