The rise and fall of Chris Brain and the Nine O’Clock Service
At an extraordinary service in St Thomas’s Church in 1989, the Right Rev David Lunn, then the Bishop of Sheffield, confirmed 100 people in the Anglican faith.I| www.thetimes.com
At an extraordinary service in St Thomas’s Church in 1989, the Right Rev David Lunn, then the Bishop of Sheffield, confirmed 100 people in the Anglican faith.I| www.thetimes.com
Christopher Brain, who became the leader of an evangelical movement in the Church of England, was cleared of 15 other charges by a jury at Inner London crown court| www.thetimes.com
At the height of its influence in 1991, when the Nine O’Clock Service had its American premier on Halloween weekend in San Francisco, it was known for taking a postmodernist approach to liturgy. Now, it is better known for its founder’s postmodernist understanding of sexual experimentation.| The Living Church
