In the contemporary church, the word 'mission' has become synonymous with pace, expansion and results. Yet such an approach can often leave those with responsibilities in mission or ministry feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. Not only that, but mission which focuses on the rapid and the growing fails to recognise the rich resources the more contemplative Christian traditions can offer our post-secular society, and especially those who would call themselves 'spiritual but not religious'.

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Ian Mobsby has worked as a lay pioneer/missioner and as an ordained pioneer practitioner particularly with missional forms of new monastic communities and the experimental alongside the traditional. Ian has written a number of books on aspects of contemporary mission and spirituality, recently completing a research PhD part exploration of the 'Spiritual But Not Religious'. He is currently working in Canada as the Diocesan Community Missioner to the Bishop of Niagara and remains a member of the Church of England's College of Bishop's Advisory Council for the relations of Diocesan Bishops and Religious Communities.