Celebrating Forty Years of Faith in the City

By:   Alan Billings, Andrew Bradstock, Sophie Valentine Cowan
Edited by:   Terry Drummond, Joseph Forde
Imprint:   Sacristy Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   330g
ISBN:   9781789593945
ISBN 10:   1789593948
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   15 July 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Terry Drummond was commissioned a Church Army Evangelist by Archbishop Michael Ramsey in 1972. Since then, his ministry has focused on linking the local church to the wider community. It has included work on a housing estate, a ministry with the street homeless, and nine years with lead responsibility for non-residential social work and policy development for the Church Army. While in this post, he gave evidence to the Faith in the City commissioners and was responsible for drafting the Church Army’s response. This was followed by a 15-month secondment to the government’s Inner Cities Unit, working on behalf of the Church of England and arranged as a response to the publication of Faith in the City. Subsequently, he spent 15 years working with local churches in the London Borough of Croydon. Between 2005 and 2015, he was bishop’s chaplain to the Rt Revd Tom Butler in Southwark, and later bishop’s advisor on urban and public policy to the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun in Southwark. In 2016, he was ordained a distinctive deacon by Bishop Christopher. He will shortly be submitting a PhD thesis to the University of Manchester on “Urban Mission and Ministry in the Church of England after the report Mission-Shaped Church”. Joseph Forde is Honorary Research Fellow in Historical Theology at the Urban Theology Union, Sheffield. After working for 26 years in NHS management, he was awarded a PhD in Theology from the University of Manchester, having previously gained degrees in History from the universities of Lancaster (BA Hons) and Sheffield (MA), and in Human Resource Management (MA) from the University of Huddersfield. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Since taking early retirement in 2014, he has been chair of Sheffield’s Church Action on Poverty Group. He researches and writes about welfare and Christianity, and has a particular interest in the contribution that the British churches have made to welfare provision since the middle of the nineteenth century, including their influence on shaping government policy on welfare. He is the author of Before and Beyond the ‘Big Society’: John Milbank and the Church of England’s Approach to Welfare (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2022).