Lived Mission in 21st Century Britain

Ben Aldous is the Principal Officer for Evangelism & Mission for Churches Together in England. Harvey Kwiyani is a Malawian missiologist and African Christianity Programme Lead for the Church Mission Society in Oxford. Peniel Rajkumar is Global Theology with the USPG and previously worked for the World Council of Churches. Victoria Anne Turner is Lecturer at Ripon College Cuddesdon and recent PhD graduate from Edinburgh University.

"The strength of this book lies in the polyphonic and diversity of the editors and contributors. The perspectives of the editors and contributors includes intercultural, intergenerational and interdenominational therefore making this book an important volume on mission in the 21st century British context. In a western individualised contested postmodern society such as we live in, any reflection on mission have to consider the ecumenical and intercultural dimensions of mission therefore this is a worthwhile book on Intercultural Ecumenical Missiology!"

• ForewordMike Royal and Nicola BradyAcknowledgementsEditors and ContributorsIntroductionBenjamin Aldous and Victoria TurnerConfessions1.The Synodal Pathway in the Catholic ChurchJan Nowotnik 2.Mission in the colonial matrix of adult power: Child-centredness as way, truth and life!Graham Adams 3.Contexts and Consequences: Enduring Pain versus the Intentional Erasure of Colonial LegacyShemil Mathew4.When the Church of the British Isles begins to venerate her own saints, then the Church will growTimothy Boniface CarrollContexts5.This is our land: Africans Evangelising in BritainHarvey Kwiyani6.Second-generation British-Nigerians and Contextual Mission in BritainBisi Adenekan7.‘Marginality’ as Mission Priority: Decolonising Theology to Participate in God’s MissionElizabeth Joy8.Beyond Breaking Point: Responding to Brokenness in Rural Scottish Parish ChurchesHeather Major9.Witnessing as Mission: Powerlessness as Prophetic Discipleship in the Hostile Environment Tom Hackett and Victoria Turner 10.Befriending the elderly stranger: lived mission and older people James WoodwardConsequences11.Mission and Racial Justice: Ecumenical and Millennial perspectivesLisa Adjei and Shermara Fletcher12.Just(ice) Love: A Public Theological Engagement with the BibleRaj Bharat Patta13.Less Christian, More Secular and More Religiously Plural: 21st Century Census Data as Contextual Challenge and Opportunity for Christian Presence and Witness in EnglandPaul Weller14.Reimagining Mission from the Margins: Reclaiming Dignity, Agency and Power togetherNiall Cooper15.Communities of resistance, migrant rights and the climate crisis: Ambalavaner Sivanandan’s prophetic challenge to lived mission.Anupama RanawanaConclusion16.Where do we go from here?Harvey Kwiyani and Peniel Rajkumar