Ship of Fools: City Church, Kensington, Liverpool, England

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Ship of Fools: City Church, Kensington, Liverpool, England

Happy, very clappy, worship with enough passion to take the roof off, and a long sermon

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angloid

As a local, it's fascinating to read three upbeat accounts recently of unfamiliar (to me) expressions of Christian faith and worship in this city of Liverpool. Thank you Seoirse; I wonder if your investigations have taken you also to more mainstream churches especially of the Anglican and Roman Catholic variety We can often veer from complacency ('our tradition has got it right') to despondency ('we must have lost the plot since nobody comes to us any more' ) I know MW reports are meant to be a snapshot pf a particular church on a particular occasion, and not an in-depth investigation, but maybe a spectrum of snapshots will lead to a fair-minded consideration of what it is we (and they) are doing right and what we are doing wrong.

Alan29

I spent my teaching career in Kenny in a High shool, and this description of the area is bang-on accurate. "Kensington (known to locals as ‘Kenny’) is an inner-city area of Liverpool, a mile or so north of the city centre. It has a local reputation for being very rough." At one point it was being described as one of the most dperived areas in Europe.

Pomona

I know the local library has a beautiful Victorian (?) edifice.

Bishops Finger

What @angloid said. It's easy for those of us struggling with tiny congregations in a huge, cold barn, to become weary, if not despondent, and encouraging to hear of different traditions flourishing in what is probably a difficult environment.

Elim would not really be my crowd, either, FWIW, but I was delighted when an Elim chapel in Our Town re-opened after a long period of closure. It now houses a Chinese congregation, which would make for an interesting MW Report by someone who speaks Mandarin...

angloid

Alan29 wrote: »

I spent my teaching career in Kenny in a High shool, and this description of the area is bang-on accurate. "Kensington (known to locals as ‘Kenny’) is an inner-city area of Liverpool, a mile or so north of the city centre. It has a local reputation for being very rough." At one point it was being described as one of the most dperived areas in Europe.

Its demographics are rapidly changing, though not becoming more affluent I think. Very different from its more famous namesake in that London (even though that is more mixed than its reputation).