Mission, Anguish, and Defiance

“In a powerful description of the way racism can work in the ordained ministry of the Church of England, David Isiorho uses personal narrative and theological skills to analyze causes and consequences.”


—Rosemary Power, author of Challenging Bullying in Churches and Bullying: A Liturgy for the Burdened





"David Isiorho brings a personal dimension to a political dilemma. Examining how ‘structural inequalities’ and ‘White prejudice’ in the Anglican Church underlines racism and undermines attempts to tackle it, his book portrays racism as a moral and spiritual problem and shows how assumptions of cultural superiority within structures of Church governance subvert the promise of Christ in John 10:10, ‘I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.’”


—Tom McCready, Pastor, Doncaster Unitarian and Free Christian Church





"With heartfelt personal narrative and scholarly citation of sources, David Isiorho’s book provides a devastating exposition of institutional bullying and racism in a Church of England, wherein the blood of Christ flows consubstantial and coeternal with that of the victims of the Church’s history of Empire. This is a prophetic voice challenging the idolatry of Anglican clericalism and unmasking the colonialist control of discourse, and represents a vital document for interfaith as well as ecumenical relations."


—Sheikh Dr Muhammad Al-Hussaini, Senior Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Westminster Institute