Black Sheep and Prodigals by Dave Tomlinson - ISBN: 9781473611047
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Embrace doubts, questions, and differences on the edges of faith.

Black Sheep and Prodigals

An Antidote to Black and White Religion

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    5 April 2018

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Summary

‘Very interesting, it’s all about not alienating people before they even think about crossing the threshold of where you worship.’ - Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2

Do you feel more at home on the edges of faith than at the centre? Would you call yourself a bit of a black sheep?

Too often Christian spirituality has been associated with conformity, or a subculture where people don’t feel able to ask questions. But Dave Tomlinson, author of How to be a bad Christia…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473611047
ISBN-10:1473611040
Author:Dave Tomlinson
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:Hodder Faith
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:5 April 2018
Weight:192g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 17mm
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Critics Review

I finished Black Sheep and Prodigals impressed by the work of Dave Tomlinson, and I would be a difficult person to win over: here is a priest who celebrates holy communion with Hobnob biscuits and communicates the unbaptised … what shines through is Tomlinson’s commitment to people whom the Church has missed, or grasped all too eagerly and burnt in the process. - The Church Times

About The Author

Dave Tomlinson

Dave Tomlinson was a house church leader for many years and is now an Anglican priest. Unable to accept the narrow restrictions of his tradition, he founded the legendary Holy Joe’s, a church in a pub in Clapham for disaffected church drop-outs. He is now Vicar of St Luke’s, Holloway, a thriving parish church in north London. He is the author of the seminal The Post-Evangelical, I Shall Not Want and Re-enchanting Christianity, and most recently How to Be a Bad Christian and The Bad Christian’s Manifesto.

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