Christopher Idle reflects on two memorable Christmas Carol Services where two bishops shared their story of coming to Christ.
When David Sheppard came to live just across the road from us in Peckham, it seemed providential.
Bishop one – David Sheppard
The tall, dark and handsome clergyman had carved a name for himself in two quite different worlds. As a stylish right-hand batsman for Cambridge University, Sussex and England, he had rewritten some of the record books with the help of contemporaries like Peter May and Colin Cowdrey. As Warden of the Mayflower Family Centre in East London’s Canning Town, he had explored new patterns of evangelical urban mission which challenged much traditional thinking, not only among Anglicans.
