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A collection of five pictures which address issues and challenges pertinent (but not exclusively so) to the Black Majority Church in the UK. They sharpen understanding of the way the BMCs have come to do church, and also challenge whether the vision is to maintain the status quo or be a prophetic church.
1. Introductory address by Bishop Joe Aldred
2. Moving beyond maintenance to mission: resisting the bewitchment of colonial Christianity by Dr Robert Beckford
3. Pentecostal Hermeneutics by RevdRuthlyn Bradshaw
4. Women in Leadership by Dr Elaine Storkey
5. Youth Culture: Friend or Foe? By the Revd Carver Anderson.
Phyllis Thompson has a background in development education and Pastoral ministry in the UK. She is currently a member of the Church of God International General Board of Education, an Executive Council Member of the European Pentecostal Theological Association and a member of the leadership team of her local Church in Northampton, England. She has written on topics to do with Black Majority Churches, and women in Christian leadership. Recent publications include her contribution to Faith of our Fathers (2009),Challenges of Black Pentecostal Leadership in the 21st Century (2013) and Challenges of Pentecostal Theology in the 21st Century (2020) the latter two for which she is the editor.
