The Revd Dr Hannah Steele is Director of St Mellitus College, London. As well as Living His Story, she is author of New World, New Church? (SCM Press, 2017). Alongside her academic work, Hannah has spent time engaged in mission and evangelism among students in central London as a staff worker with UCCF. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2021 Lent Book, her first devotional study, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Elegant, wide-ranging, and encouraging, Steele’s writing is accessible but never simplistic. She presents deep truths and questions about the life and flourishing of the Church in a voice that shows her love for the Church at its best . . . a masterful book, which could and should be read by every church family whose members care about their engagement with the world and about showing God’s love not just in what they do, but in who they are. -- Church Times Hannah Steele is a gifted communicator, a deep thinker about mission and a passionate evangelist. It’s hard to imagine a better person to write on the church as it engages the world, and this book does not disappoint – it is full of new angles, wise perspectives and rich reflection. -- Bishop Graham Tomlin Living His Story Together masterfully unpacks what it means to be a gospel-centred, Spirit-filled, prayer-soaked, creativity-unleashing, culturally relevant body of believers. -- Phil Knox, missiologist and author, Evangelical Alliance Using stories, examining historical connotations of mission and the need to listen to those adversely affected by them, Hannah illustrates the powerful impact of community when living out biblical concepts of mission together. -- The Revd Canon Dr Sharon Prentis, Deputy Director of the Racial Justice Unit In this wonderful book, Hannah Steele offers us a personal and deeply enriching invitation to explore and experience the beauty and breadth of the Church of God. You won’t be able to put it down! -- Bishop Ric Thorpe Steele writes with an infectious understanding of her subject . . . [She] wants us to see the beauty and privilege of belonging within this story of God and of the goodness in inviting others through the door by a process of transformative imagination. -- Mark Oakley * Church Times on LIVING HIS STORY *