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"With 85 million members in more than 165 countries, the Anglican Communion represents a wide variety of opinions on mission, theology, and how to live and act as God's people. Witnessing Together focuses on preaching the gospel in different contexts around the world, highlighting practices that are transforming communities of faith. ""Each context is profoundly unique; opening a window on each of these enables the church in each place to share something of God with the church everywhere else. Unless we come together and share like this, our vision of God is small, impoverished,"" offers Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. Stories of witnessing and sharing the love of God in Christ-of persevering in the hope of the resurrection-are the beating heart of the Church. ""Listen carefully to its different voices and their richness,"" Archbishop Welby says. ""Be open to its challenges, and be inspired to join in more fully with proclaiming the good news of Jesus."" Witnessing Together is the second of a three-book series to help Anglicans around the world prepare for the upcoming Lambeth Conference, when bishops from across the Anglican Communion will gather to discuss shared challenges and opportunities for mission and ministry."

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Stephen Spencer (D.Phil, University of Oxford) is Director for Theological Education in the Anglican Communion and a canon of Musoma Cathedral in the Diocese of Mara, Tanzania. He has been a tutor and lecturer in theological education since 1999 and is author of William Temple: A Calling to Prophecy (SPCK, 2001), Christ in All Things: William Temple and His Writings (Canterbury Press, 2015), and editor of Theology Reforming Society: Revisiting Anglican Social Theology (SCM Press, 2017). He is author of three SCM Press study guides, on Christian mission (2007), Anglicanism (2010) and church history (2013), and of the forthcoming Growing and Flourishing: The Ecology of Church Growth (SCM Press, 2019). Muthuraj Swamy (PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK) is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, and a Visiting Fellow at St John's College, Durham University. He is also project manager of the Theological Education for Mission in the Anglican Communion, London. Previously he was a theological educator in India, where he hails from, and has been involved in interfaith activities and peace-building programmes for several years. He is the author of several articles and book chapters and of the books The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue: Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations (London: Bloomsbury, 2016) and Reconciliation (SPCK, 2019), the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent book for the year 2019.

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