Michael Beckett was born in Essex and married at the age of 21 to Debbie. They have four grown-up children who each have two children. They have lived half their lives in Cambridge following Michael’s ordination into the Church of England in 1988. He was vicar of St Paul’s Church in Cambridge for 28 years and retired in the year 2021. He already has one book published, The Gospel in Esther.
If you had a blank sheet of paper and were going to describe what church should look like, what would you include? Why has the make-up, of what we generally understand to be church, diverged so significantly from the kinds of people that Jesus hung out with? For very few of them would easily fit ...
