TWELVE CHURCHES (PB)

Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels from Bethlehem and the birth of Christ to the present (and future) of Christianity. Along the way he visits a Baptist Church in the segregationist American South, a medieval monastery in the heart of the Greek countryside, the Vatican, a tiny private church on the rocky coast of southern Japan – and more. Through a patchwork of interlinking and varied human stories, he explores the role of hope, faith and beauty in Christianity, but also its fraught relationships with sex, violence and power.