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This is a draft version of a chapter for 'Untold Stories in Organizations' (2014), further details here: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138790018/

It was originally a presentation to a seminar on organizational storytelling at Lincoln Business School in 2013 exploring how told and untold stories were filtered during a narrative review by a team of churches in Warwick, UK.

There are many potential connections between poetry, prayer and theology. This presentation briefly explores each subject in turn before looking at how they might converse with each other through various poems under the headings of: (a) prayer in the world; (b) prayer as lover; (c) prayer as apophatic encounter; and (d) prayer as divine meeting.

Arising from my paper ‘The Sea of Faith: After Dover Beach’ (1997) this presentation to an annual conference of naval chaplains explores how water and sea might function as organizational metaphors for chaplaincy ministry. A fully revised version was published as ‘Water as an implicit metaphor for organizational change within the Church’ (2002) in the journal Implicit Religion and can be found here: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/IR/article/view/2946/