REDISCOVERING ROY
By Valerie Joslin
Valerie Joslin. 199 pages. £9.75. ISBN 978-1-4452-5787-7
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Roy Joslin is chiefly remembered in evangelical circles for his influential book Urban Harvest, published in the 1970s. That work alerted many to the vast spiritual needs of Britain’s cities and challenged the Christian middle-class tendency to abandon urban areas for suburbs and provinces. That challenge remains as Roy Joslin’s legacy. He died in 2004.
What many of his original readers did not know about Roy Joslin was that, while he was writing that book and serving as a pastor in Walworth, he was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. His long struggle with that affliction, from its early onset in his 30s, and the faith and love which sustained him, is recounted in this book, written and published privately by his widow Valerie.
