Bread of Life in Broken Britain

<p>The return of Christian social service to the centre of British political life through the emergence of the foodbank movement has elicited a range of ecclesial responses. However in their urgency and brevity these Church responses fail to systematically integrate political critique and social analysis nor do they undertake a sustained integration of the recent gains in political theology with the realities of our current 'mixed economy of welfare'.</p><p>Charles Pemberton draws on interviews with foodbank users and volunteers to defend and advance a Christian vision of welfare beyond emergency food provision. He suggests that behind the day-to-day struggles of those using foodbanks there are wider much concerns about loneliness marginalisation and the wholesale fragmentation of society.</p>