The Reverend Dr John Pridmore served as a curate at StMartin-in-the-Fields in London’s Trafalgar Square and then as the Rector of Hackney in the East End. He has also worked in theological education and as a school chaplain in Britain, and has taught in an international school in Tanzania. John is a popular columnist in The Church Times. He has recently written The Inner-City of God and The Word is Very Near You (both Canterbury Press).