This is a book about the present and future of the church in our
own challenging context; a secular age, decline, stretched
resources, complex and fragmented communities requiring diverse
missional approaches.
Weaving together parable, storytelling, travelogue history and
poetry, Paul Bradbury journeys from rural Norfolk to inner-city
London, from a radical missional community in Lincolnshire, to a
traditional village parish in Dorset, to explore what the church
looks like today, and how local parish communities are wrestling
with the tensions between the value of inherited church, and the
need to look to the future.
Paul Bradbury
Paul Bradbury is a pioneer minister, and a visiting tutor
with the Church Mission Society and Ripon College
Cuddesdon.
9781786226075 £14.99 Canterbury
Press July 2024