I have been surprised recently on my travels by a comment that I hear over and over again in one form or another. Basically, the comment sounds something like this:

‘I look around and see that the Church of England is seriously trying to do things differently to reach out to the communities.’

It really does seem that, at last, the church has started to take seriously the fact that we need to try new things. I would never have dreamed only less than a year ago when I started this blog that I would write both the words ‘pioneering’ and ‘Church of England’ in the same sentence.

Interesting, I am sure there are others but the CofE is surprising everyone by trying new ‘experiments being church. I like this new culture of permission which Jonny writes well about here today.