Industrial Mission in a Changing World Papers from the Jubilee Conference of the Sheffield Industrial Mission

When Sheffield Industrial Mission was founded in 1944 by Bishop Leslie Hunter, Britain was a heavily industrialized country, and the purpose of the Mission was to bridge the gap between the Churches and industry. Britain is today largely deindustrialized and the Churches are not the force in national life that they were in 1944. The Jubilee volume of the Sheffield Industrial Mission reviews its history and progress, and asks searching questions about the nature of mission, spirituality and the Christian gospel in today's society.