A complementary title to the how-to manual, "Regenerating Local Churches", this volume focuses on the actual experience of local churches in a diverse area of London that includes traditional housing estates, urban developments and a glittering...

Jon Oliver was involved in mission to the club scene long before anyone thought up the term ‘mission-shaped’. Here he reflects on the kind of mission that everyone is now talking about – the church going out to where people are, in...

Many churches are having to rethink their futures. Churches of all denominations have experienced what feels like irreversible change in the last twenty years - sharp decline in attendances, falling numbers of clergy and financial resources...

Many more people visit churches as tourists than as regular worshippers. Many church guides focus only on the history of the building and visitors leave with no more idea of the Christian faith than when they arrived. Or worse, they find the church...

Is the Church of England in terminal decline, as some have forecast, or does it have a vigorous future? The Church Times decided it was time to give the C of E a thorough medical. Thirty-five specialists, including academics, researchers, parish...