Articles / Chapters
Exodus and Esther: Kings Family CMS Link Letter No 12, Nov 1990
03/01/2026 from CMS Link Letters
In our 12th CMS Link Letter, I describe the Lausanne II Congress on World Evangelilzation in Manila, including the bloodless revolution there in 1986, and further news of the Presidential Commission on the attack on Bishop David Gitari and his family.
Cost of Justice: Kings Family CMS Link Letter 11, May 1989
02/01/2026 from CMS Link Letters
In our eleventh CMS Link Letter, I describe the assassination attempt on the life of Bishop David Gitari on 22 April 1989, the local events leading up to it and President Moi's response.
Kings Family CMS Link Letter 10, Dec 1988
02/01/2026 from CMS Link Letters
Our tenth CMS link letter was written from Chigwell, Essex, where I grew up and we were kindly provided with a house for our six months leave in England. I describe the video I edited and the encouraging response to the draft Kenyan liturgy before listing our impressions of England after three years in rural Kenya
Nourishing Memories Chap 10: Kabare, Kenya, 1985-88
09/10/2025 from Nourishing Memories
Chapter 10 of my cumulative online memoir, Nourishing Memories, describes our first impressions of Kabare, St Andrew's Institute staff and courses, our family, the influence of Bishop David Gitari, three international conferences and a Kenyan Service of Holy Communion. It was published originally as 'David Gitari and a Kenyan Service of Holy Communion' on Covenant on 9 Oct 2025.
Kings Family CMS Link Letter 7, Sept 1987
28/12/2023 from CMS Link Letters
In our seventh CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe the international consultation of mission theologians at St Andrew's Institute and the consecration of Embu Cathedral.
Kings Family CMS Link Letter 3, Feb 1986
23/12/2023 from CMS Link Letters
In our third CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe an extraordinary Confirmation Service in the semi-arid area of Epinding.
Kings Family CMS Link Letter 2, Dec 1985
22/12/2023 from CMS Link Letters
In our second CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe the 75th anniversary celebration of the gospel coming to Kabare in 1910.
Kings Family CMS Link Letter 1, Sept 1985
21/12/2023 from CMS Link Letters
In our first CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe our first impressions of living in the fertile foothills of Mount Kenya at 6,000 feet.
Afterword to 'Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion' edited by David Goodhew
28/07/2023 from Global South Christianity
My Afterword to David Goodhew (ed.), Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion, 1980 to the Present (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), considers the views of Jesus, Paul, David Gitari, Martin Laird, Chou En Lai and Thomas Cranmer on mission and the growth and decline of the Church.
BBC Radio 4 talk on Archbishop David Gitari 1997
26/07/2020 from Global South Christianity
Norman Winter, a BBC Radio 4 producer, asked me present three Radio 4 short programmes in July 1997 on my three favourite books the Henry Martyn Library. This is my script of the third one, on Archbishop David Gitari's book, In Season and Out of Season: Sermons to a Nation (Oxford: Regnum, 1996). It was broadcast on 26 July 1997.


