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In a world marked by rapid technological change, social fragmentation, and spiritual hunger, how can Christians bear faithful and compelling witness in public life?

In this year’s John Stott London Lecture, Graham Tomlin will explore what it means to communicate and live out the Christian faith in a time of uncertainty and change, where many forces are shaping us in powerful ways. Together we will unpack how the gospel helps us live and speak wisely in every sphere of human life.

Drawing on the legacy of John Stott’s vision of ‘double listening’, attentive both to the word of God and to the realities of the contemporary world, Bishop Graham will consider how Christians can engage thoughtfully and courageously with the questions, anxieties, and hopes shaping modern society. What does cultural witness look like in an age of rapid change and competing narratives? How might ordinary disciples of Jesus live and speak faithfully in their workplaces, communities, and everyday relationships?

This webinar is designed for those working with people in communities to build meaningful, sustained community power

Community Organising is set out as being the ‘best practice’ for community engagement and over the last 10 years and we trained 1000s of people in this approach.This webinar will introduce our Grassroots organisers Field Guide which sets out the stages of organising from understanding a neighbourhood, to building relationships, to taking action, and creating change. Come along and find out more and get a free electronic copy of our guide “The Grassroots Organising Field Guide: From Listening to Power - And Possibility”

The sixth in Together for the Common Good's Staying Human series, this will address what happened to communities that globalisation has written out of the future - and what it means for churches to find Christ already at work among them.

This series is exploring how to stay human as we live through a change of era. Amidst the unravelling of the old era - cultural confusion, fragmentation and the breakdown of trust – we see the limitations of government, the AI revolution, and we sense deep uncertainty ahead.

Our speaker John Clifton will open up a frank conversation about how globalisation reshaped not just our economy and our politics, but also how we treat people and places.

Drawing on his encounters with anger and grief in deindustrialised communities, and on signs of spiritual hunger in places where institutional Christianity has thinned, John will explore what these places reveal about the deeper moral and spiritual crisis of our time.

This talk is not just diagnosis but primarily constructive: inspired by Franciscan, Salvationist and Catholic Social Teaching traditions, John calls the churches back to proximity - to a way of following Christ that answers abandonment not with charity alone, but with humanising solidarity.

The Assemblis team are hosting a series of informal drop-in sessions for anyone who's organised a community assembly, is thinking about it, or is just curious how it's done.

Each session is lean coffee style — no slides, no fixed agenda. You bring the questions, we vote on what to talk about, and we timebox the conversation so everyone gets airtime. Each one focuses on a different stage of running an assembly:

Plan — getting from an idea to a real, scheduled assembly - Oct 27
Facilitate — running the room on the day - Nov 11
Follow-up — closing the loop afterwards - Nov 26

Turn up for one, two, or all three. Bring a question, a discussion topic, or just your curiosity. 45–60 minutes, on Zoom.

The Assemblis team are hosting a series of informal drop-in sessions for anyone who's organised a community assembly, is thinking about it, or is just curious how it's done.

Each session is lean coffee style — no slides, no fixed agenda. You bring the questions, we vote on what to talk about, and we timebox the conversation so everyone gets airtime. Each one focuses on a different stage of running an assembly:

Plan — getting from an idea to a real, scheduled assembly - Oct 27
Facilitate — running the room on the day - Nov 11
Follow-up — closing the loop afterwards - Nov 26

Turn up for one, two, or all three. Bring a question, a discussion topic, or just your curiosity. 45–60 minutes, on Zoom.

In this session, we get to the heart of how we can move people to action. This online webinar facilitated by Nick Gardham will build on from the Grassroots Organising webinar and will explore how, once we have reached out and listened to a community, how can we then move people to action.

Community organising is a proven method, to reach out beyond the existing network or membership of an organisation, using practical listening tools to engage people, build relationships and find leaders. In this session, we get to hear what motivates people to take action in their community. How can we mobilise a network of people we have listened to, to take action? How do we get people to take action around the things they care about? And how do we know what is the right action to take?

The Assemblis team are hosting a series of informal drop-in sessions for anyone who's organised a community assembly, is thinking about it, or is just curious how it's done.

Each session is lean coffee style — no slides, no fixed agenda. You bring the questions, we vote on what to talk about, and we timebox the conversation so everyone gets airtime. Each one focuses on a different stage of running an assembly:

Plan — getting from an idea to a real, scheduled assembly - Oct 27
Facilitate — running the room on the day - Nov 11
Follow-up — closing the loop afterwards - Nov 26

Turn up for one, two, or all three. Bring a question, a discussion topic, or just your curiosity. 45–60 minutes, on Zoom.

Listening is the foundation to all community organising. Without listening, you are unable to build relationships, identify leaders and bring people together to take action on issues.

But it isn’t always easy. This webinar explores when listening conversations can become challenging, for example when someone says something that you may believe are false, misleading, or harmful. It will help to prepare you for those difficult conversations by showing you that the best way is not necessarily to correct people but to understand why they might feel like that, develop the conversation to get to the root cause of this concern and find out what experiences they may have had to make them feel like that. And finally, to know when to challenge and how to challenge.