The old idea of the parish still has life in it
A church at the heart of the community: St Luke’s Prestonville, Martin Poole’s Brighton parish
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For Martin Poole, the healthy growth of a parish should not be rushed; it might take about seven years for seeds to bear fruit.
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Martin Poole’s experiences as a parish priest in Brighton highlight a number of issues in the Church of England. Though influenced by charismatic evangelicalism, Poole is an open-minded type, a “trendy liberal” to his critics. He was an actor in his youth and has kept up an interest in performance art and public art in worship (the subject of his previous book). He embodies the arty “open evangelicalism” of the Greenbelt festival.
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