978 1 917362 24 5 | June 2026
Paperback | 240 pp | 198 x 126 mmPrice: £14.99
In a time of uncertainty and change, how might we most hopefully envision the future of the Church of England?
This rich collection of essays by a diverse group of some of the most well-respected progressive Christian writers of our day seeks to offer an honest appraisal, and a hopeful horizon.
The contributors drawn from within the Church of England are: MARK OAKLEY (on a poetic and prophetic church), HELEN-ANN HARTLEY (on hopeful endurance), SIMON CUFF (on Catholicity and wholeness), RACHEL MANN (on cherishing trans lives), LUKE LARNER (on the Church and money), ANDERSON JEREMIAH (on racial justice), CARLTON TURNER (on ministry), SHARON PRENTIS (on collective wisdom), and ALICE GOODMAN (on being a parson in a mortal church).
Fresh perspectives are provided by three writers outwith the Church of England: SANDRA FYFE (on insights from Ezekiel), GEMMA SIMMONDS (on disagreement and reconciliation) and WINNIE VARGHESE (on the Church in the USA).
The collection's editor, CHARLIE BACZYK-BELL, has written a chapter on the Gospel imperative of hospitality. ROWAN WILLIAMS has written the Foreword, and KAY GOLDSWORTHY offers the Afterword.
Charlie Baczyk-Bell is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London. He is also a Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Medicine at Girton College Cambridge, holds a PhD (2015) in immunogenetic medicine, and is a Module Leader for the University of London’s Global MBA. He will be ordained in the Church of England in June 2021 and will serve his curacy in the Diocese of Southwark; he is currently completing an MA focusing on a theological response to ‘total pain’. He is involved in a number of church-based organisations, including Modern Church and Affirming Catholicism. He has published papers in both theology and medicine and was previously the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow advising the Health and Social Care Committee of the House of Commons and the National Audit Office, where he contributed to a number of reports.