The Exiled Church explores how churches and faith communities are faring in a highly secular contemporary culture. In many places, traditional denominations are in steep decline, church buildings are up for sale, even fast-growing new churches appear to be in a 'boom and bust' trajectory, and religion has effectively retreated from public life. Yet it was in exile that Israel discovered a deeper and truer knowledge of God.

Martyn Percy is a writer, theologian and academic. He has held numerous roles in public life and writes for Prospect magazine, the Times and the Guardian. The author of more than forty books, he now lives in Aberdeen and is licensed to minister in the Church of Scotland.