Publications
Here are details of books by or about worker-priests (and close variants) I know of. Always glad to add other publications you can recommend.
Priests and workers: a rejoinder
The first is not a seminal text in the history of this kind of ministry but the one I most value, not least because it was written by my friend, John Rowe. It was published in 1965 and arose from his experience and vocation. He followed the traditional route of training and initial curacies, then left the employment of the church in order to become a priest-worker in Truman's Brewery, Brick Lane, London. He worked there until retirement, and continues to live in East London.
Access the text of Rejoinder here
Fr John Rowe, one of Britain's early worker priests and author of Priests and Workers: a Rejoinder
- Allen, Roland The Case for Voluntary Clergy Eyre and Spottiswode, London 1930
- Allen, Roland. Missionary Methods, St. Paul's or Ours? Eerdman 6th Edn, London 1962
- Baelz, Peter and Jacob, William Ministers of the Kingdom: Exploration in Non Stipendiary Ministry CIO Publishing, London 1985
- Bickers, Dennis W. The Tentmaking Pastor: the joy of bivocational ministry Baker Books, 2000
- Burton, Jack Transport of Delight. SCM Press, London 1976
- Mantle, John Britain's first Worker priests SCM Press, London 2000
- Roberts, Ted Partners + Ministers: An experiment in supplementary ministry Falcon 1972
- Vaughan, Patrick H Non stipendiary Ministry in the Church of England: A History of the Development of an Idea. Mellon Research Community
Press, San Francisco 1990 - Edwards David L (ed) Priests and Workers: An Anglo-French Discussion SCM:London
CHRISM (a UK-based network of ministers in secular employment have produced this list of the contents of the Michael Rankin Memorial Library for Christians in secular emplyment (held in Limehouse, East London).
John Mantle published Britain's First Worker Priests in XXXX.
