Continuing my memoir, ‘Nourishing Memories’, in Chapter 9, ‘Called to be Missionaries’. I describe the BBC Radio interview which led to Alison and I becoming members of the Church Missionary Society, our call, training in Birmingham and preparations for moving to Kenya.

Republished with permission from Covenant: link to original, 7 Oct 2024, is here. For other chapters of Nourishing Memories, see the Contents Page here.

My chapter 13 in David Hilborn and Simo Frestadius (eds), Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2023), republished with permission.

When we were on leave in the UK for six months (Aug 1988 to Jan 1989), between our two terms of service with CMS at Kabare in Kenya, Harry Moore, the General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, asked me to write the CMS Newsletter for July/August 1989. Since only General Secretaries wrote the Newsletter, this was entitled an Occasional Paper.

My Afterword in Ian Randall, Georgina Gollock: Pioneering Female Missiologist (Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, 2023), pp. 115-121.

My Introduction to Exchange of Gifts: The Vision of Simon Barrington-Ward (Ekklesia, 2022) edited by me and Ian Randall.

'Influence of great Anglican crossed culture and creed', my Credo article 22 Jan 2022, commissioned by The Times, on Simon Barrington-Ward, including mention of Exchange of Gifts: The Vision of Simon Barrington-Ward (Ekklesia, 2022) edited by me and Ian Randall.

My Credo article, 22 Jan 2022, commissioned by The Times, on Simon Barrington-Ward, including mention of Exchange of Gifts: The Vision of Simon Barrington-Ward (Ekklesia, 2022) edited by me and Ian Randall.

My Ponderings for November is my review, commissioned, and accepted for publication in 2021, by the journal Modern Believing, of the book Imagining Mission with John V. Taylor by Jonny Baker and Cathy Ross (SCM Press, 2020). My poem, 'Thanksgiving: Bishop John V Taylor' was published in Nourishing Connections (Canterbury Press, 2020) and may be seen here.

In preparation for the bicentenary of the Church Mission Society in 1999, I was asked to write the CMS News-Letter for June, July and Aug 1998. It is called an Occasional Paper since only General Secretaries of CMS write the News-Letter.