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What's your superpower?' is a question I often ask children in my community clinic. Some say super-strength, or the ability to fly. One recently told me he would 'magic me out of the room'. My ego is only just recovering. But seriously, have you attended a lecture on power? Or heard...
It happened at every changeover in August and February. Would any of my new colleagues be Christians? How long would it take to find out if any of the staff on my ward shared my faith? Maybe, like me, you look around our increasingly secular landscape and feel oddly alone....
During lockdowns and school closures I feel like I've watched pretty much the entire Disney+ back catalogue with my kids. I'm debating with my daughter whether Encanto is any good at all — she dislikes it and certainly won't talk about Bruno. As we've watched, the question repeatedly arises in...
The healthcare leadership arena is an increasingly secular one. Leaders can feel isolated in their role or reluctant to step into leadership positions in the first place. Others succumb to the sacred-secular divide, where leaders and managers are involved in church and see their 'secular' work as less valuable. And...
CMF is global, national, and local. Our mission is broad and inspiring as we seek to see gospel transformation in our nation, our hospitals, our GP surgeries, our universities, and above all, in the lives of individuals. But mission and activity happen through people who live in real places with...
I have a confession to make. I secretly enjoy many of Jim Carrey's films. Whereas my wife finds him over-the-top and puerile, there is something about him that appeals to my juvenile sense of humour. Recently I watched Yes Man where he challenges himself to say 'yes' to everything with...
What comes to mind when you think of a mentor? Perhaps you think of Dumbledore or Yoda or, if you are old like me, Mr Miyagi from the Karate Kid (still one of the greatest films around!). I want to suggest that mentoring is a hugely helpful and perhaps essential...
Twelve people gathering for twelve months to grow in faith as applied to medicine? That's the dream, and for the fifth year our Deep:ER Fellowship programme kicked off in early September. We are joined by a dynamic group of intercalating medical students and F3 doctors. They will be carrying out a...
'If you could see God do one thing in your region, what would that be?' Such was the opening question to 60 nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and medics gathered on Zoom for our first online Catalyst Teams Training on Saturday 5 September. We now have 14 Catalyst Teams...
John Greenall is CMF Associate CEO and a paediatrician in Bedfordshire I was the only Christian on my fourth year paediatrics rotation. In fact, ditto for psych and care of the elderly. Neuro was different; two of my friends from church were there, but they didn't seem to take their faith...
