Our Diocesan Director of Training for Missional Ministry, the Revd Dr Gavin Wakefield, has co-authored a new book - Northern Gospel, Northern Church: Reflections on Identity and Mission. Co-authored by Nigel Rooms, and with a Foreword by Archbishop Sentamu, there are also chapters from the Rt Revd Dr John Thomson (Bishop of Selby), the Revd Matthew Porter (Vicar of St Michael le Belfrey, York), and Su Reid (Sub-Warden of Readers in Stokesley Deanery).

From the monks of Lindisfarne to the Synod of Whitby, the North is historically considered to be a cradle of Christianity in England, but in today’s society is there a “gospel for the North”?

Does it make sense to talk of a gospel for a specific place when there is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5)? Can we even consider the North of England as a distinct entity with its own particular identity?

This book brings together prominent practitioners and academics to answer these questions and explore what it means to proclaim the gospel in the North of England from many angles: housing estates to ancient cathedrals, Biblical reflection to street evangelism, history to economics.

“Enlightening, thought provoking and honest, a bit like the North itself” — Kate Bottley (the “Gogglebox Vicar”)

To find out more, or preorder a copy, visit the Sacristy Press website here.