Laurie Green

Bishop Laurie was born a London Eastender. He studied in London & the States, worked with Hell’s Angels and sang in New York night clubs. His twenty years in Birmingham was as vicar of an Anglican/Methodist parish, with his own BBC Radio programme and as Industrial Chaplain, then Principal of a theology course. He returned to the East End as Rector of Poplar, and in 1993 became a Bishop in Essex. He ran the Church's Housing Estate Network, and its Urban Strategy Committee and worked internationally on Global Urbanisation.

His book, 'Let’s Do Theology' remains a core text in contextual theology. He lives in Sussex and is the Bishop Visitor to nuns at Malling Abbey, Kent. He plays guitar and continues to teach and offer spiritual direction.