I recently had the priviledge of delivering a keynote address at an Intercultural Church Conference held at Life church in Manchester. The title of the talk was Multicultural Britain Intercultural Churches. The conference was organised in partnership with the following organisations: Manchester Centre for the Study of Christianity and Islam (MCSCI), One People Commission of the Evangelical Alliance, Intercultural Churches UK, OMF and Afro-Diaspora Mission Network. The conference was attended by practitioners, pastors, mission leaders and academics drawn from different cultural and ethnic background, church traditions and theological persuasions.

The key question at the heart of the conference was why are intercultural churches significant in 21^st century Britain? But perhaps more importantly, a research question I want to explore in this essay in order to answer the first question is what are the differences between a multicultural church and an intercultural church or to put the question another way, what do we mean by intercultural churches and how is it different from multicultural churches? I tried unpacking some of these questions in the keynote talk which you can listen to here

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