17/02/2026
The next series of 'Beyond the Walls' webinar discussions are released. www.beyondthewalls.online
Next month (10th March) we are with Revd Dr Al Barrett:
Revd Dr Al Barrett has been Rector of Hodge Hill Church (on the eastern edge of Birmingham) since 2010, and has been deeply involved with neighbours in a long-term, intergenerational journey of grassroots community-building on his multicultural outer urban estate. This collective grassroots work has in turn shaped his thinking and writing, particularly in the entangled strands of class, race, gender and ecology. Al will be inviting us to pay attention to the work of nurturing community and kinship in a world that feels like it is falling apart, and to see our neighbourhoods as complex ecosystems within which the life-giving Spirit is at work.
In April we are with Jonny Baker
Focus: How might dwelling on Jesus’ encounters with those at the fringes open up imagination for our own practice and ministry? Does the lens of fringe dwelling have anything to fresh to say to us about Jesus and about being disciples? How might we read the scriptures , particularly gospel stories, in participative ways in our communities?
And in May with Revd Sally Taylor:
Rev’d Sally Taylor is a Pioneer Anglican Priest working in Poole, Dorset. Sally trained at Sarum College as well as studying at CMS and served her Curacy in Hamworthy, Poole. For the past 3 years she was led an ecumenical gardening project which has reimagined a derelict urban space in the grounds of an 18th century United Reformed Church into a growing and reflective space. Out of this grew Garden church which she leads. She is an LLM Formation Officer for Salisbury Diocese . She also heads up Ember - a pastoral reflective space for churches that are facing closure or rethinking what it means to be church.
She is passionate about enabling the church to remember its calling and be open to reimagining itself in ways that are appropriate to time and context. She teaches on the CMS Pioneer Certificate as well in other spaces and supports several lay and ordained Pioneers in their journeys. At home she is part of a small Missional Community where she lives and shares a pattern of prayer, life and resources with her neighbours.
Archdeacon Plymouth Truro Diocese Diocese of Bath & Wells Tina Hodgett Pioneer Hub at CMS Southwest CMS Pioneer Hub Archdeacon of Exeter Churches Together In Devon Growing the Rural Church Creation Care Team - Diocese of Exeter Children and Families In Devon - Exeter Diocese
