TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frost,Alex
AU  - Kemp,Cathryn
TI  - Our daily bread: from Argos to the altar - a priest's story 
SN  - 9780008556525 (hbk.) :
AV  - BV637.5 
U1  - 253.0942 FRO 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - HarperNorth
KW  - Frost, Alex.
KW  - Pastoral theology
KW  - England
KW  - Burnley
KW  - Religion
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - North West England
KW  - thema
KW  - Biography: religious & spiritual
KW  - Memoirs
KW  - Religion & beliefs
KW  - Christian life & practice
KW  - Burnley (England)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
N2  - A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners. Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche Mode. But having achieved his profession, Fr Alex quickly recognised the 17,000 inhabitants of his new parish were in dire need of help. Burnley is typical of many towns across Britain: a place of run-down council estates, severe poverty litter, crime and drugs, but also a place where the sacred sits alongside the secular in an intimate and personal way. And so it was that he found himself running a food bank from a car park, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged
ER  -