Who do we think we are?

John Woods  |  Reviews
Date posted:  5 Nov 2024
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Who do we think we are?

CLASS
and the Evangelical Church in England
By Kirsten Birkett
Church Society. 115 pages. £5
ISBN 978 1 739 516 079

Kirsten Birkett makes good use of two recent books by Natalie Williams and Mez McConnell to show that the evangelical church has not been very effective in reaching working-class people.

The author is a middle-class Australian theologian, who has spent the past 18 years in the UK, and now works for Church Society. Birkett explores what it means to be working class, concluding it has a lot to do with how we feel rather than a set of fixed criteria like accent, job and home.

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