Being Interrupted: Reimagining the Church's Mission from the Outside, In

by Al Barrett, Ruth Harley, Rachel Mann (Foreword by), Anthony G Reddie (Foreword by), Lynne Cullens (Foreword by)

Overview

- A careful and multilayered weaving of missional thinking together with a powerful reading of Mark's gospel - The author draws from his personal experience working within a multicultural surburban parish - The author is a leading thinker and advocate for estates churches in the UK

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780334058625
Publisher:	Hymns Ancient & Modern
Publication date:	11/30/2020
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.37(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Revd Dr Al Barrett is rector of Hodge Hill Church in the Diocese of Birmingham. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Queen’s Foundation

Ruth Harley is an ordinand in the Church of England. Prior to that, I was the Children’s and Families’ Minister at a town-centre parish church.

Editorial Reviews

‘A fascinating contribution to the conversation about mission in the 21st century’

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Stephen Cottrell

"...a creative, interdisciplinary contextual missiology, which breaks new ground by incorporating a multidimensional analysis (race, class and gender). The book adds to a small number of texts written by theologians racialised as white, that rise to the challenge for racial justice in Christian theology. The book's mix of theory, practice and creative arts make it an essential 'action book' for individual Christians and churches seeking to interrupt the long history of oppression(s) from, and in British churches."

Professor Robert Beckford

"Here is a primer for our times written by two people who help me to feel hopeful about the church and the future of Christian faith. Rooted in practice as well as wide scholarship and prayer, clear-eyed about the urgent issues of our day, this book challenges the multiple ways in which privilege operates to 'other' and refuse the gifts of those who are different from us. It will help individuals and communities find new ways to co-operate with the Spirit of God in her fluid, generative work of kindling and sustaining life - in unlikely and surprising places and ways."

Professor Nicola Slee

"A thought provoking and compelling read that is not afraid to tackle some of the challenging issues the Church has had to consider over recent times. Taking into account the turbulent period from Brexit, the Windrush Scandal, the Me-Too Movement to the COVID-19 Pandemic the authors examine the social fractures in the light of the biblical imperative of what it means to love our neighbour. What they offer is an inspired approach that acknowledges both the challenges and the joys that ‘being interrupted’ can bring in order to envision new possibilities. Taking a constructively critical and accessible theological examination of the current context, Al and Ruth prompt us to consider how we might be intentional about traversing those fractures as Christ’s disciples."

Revd Dr Sharon Prentis