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Stories of Faith, Hope and Love

The Church of Tomorrow: Imagining the Kingdom of God

Charlie Baczyk-Bell

978 1 917362 24 5 |June 2026
Paperback |240 pp |198 x 126 mm
Price: £14.99

A hopeful and generous scan of the horizon for the Church of England, collecting critical state-of-the-moment original chapters by some of the leading progressive writers in the Christian Church today. The contributors are: Mark Oakley (on a poetic and prophetic Church), Bishop 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), Bishop Anderson Jeremiah (on racial justice), Carl Turner (on ministry), Sharon Prentis (on collective wisdom), Alice Goodman (on being a parson in a mortal church), and ‘Views from Without’ by Bishop Sandra Fyfe, Gemma Simmonds and Winnie Varghese. The collection’s editor, Charlie Baczyk-Bell, has written a chapter on the Gospel imperative of hospitality. Lord Rowan Williams has written the Foreword, and Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy has written 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.
ISBNs: 9781917362245 978-1-917362-24-5 Title: stories of faith hope and love