Contexts, challenges and the church -- Part I: Confidence in formation. A flight of starlings: Cuddesdon and the forming of Anglicanism -- Sacred sagacity: formation and training for ministry -- Yeast and salt: ministerial formation for rural contexts -- Pitching tents: formational sketches on sacred space -- Part II: Commitment and mission. Many rooms in my Father's house: the parish church -- Mind the gap: mission, youth and generational change -- Opportunity knocks: church, nationhood and establishment -- Old tricks for new dogs: a critique of fresh expressions -- Part III: Communion and polity. Herding cats: leadership in the Church of England -- Context and Catholicity: an Anglican-American dilemma? -- Know surrender: from Ulster to Windsor -- After Lambeth: plotting the future -- The nature of the body and the blessing of leadership.