Free to Believe Reading Party 2025

Leader: Graham Adams
For the last 12 years, Graham has been the Tutor in Mission Studies, World Christianity, and Religious Diversity at Northern College within the Luther King Centre – with a particular interest in how questions of Empire affect each of the three parts of his teaching role. Before that, he was minister of a Congregational church in Manchester. Ecumenically, Graham has participated in several events and theological consultations organised by the Council for World Mission and is a member of CTBI’s Inter Faith Theological Advisory Group. Graham also organises the college’s annual worship conference, being interested in how worship and mission affect each other, and is a hymnwriter.

Holy Anarchy is a different way of thinking about the kingdom of God. It particularly aims to disrupt systems of Empire which dominate us, often unnoticed – both in society and in our own religious beliefs and practice. It involves a different approach to God’s power, as ‘awesome weakness’, and to the role of the Church, as ‘awkward body of Christ’. It speaks to these times of tension and uncertainty, offering hope – but not necessarily hope as we know it. And it can shape worship in which we look to this alternative horizon, humbly but audaciously. It is an adventure – come and join the journey!

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