Roots is a joint Churches’ initiative, supported by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland along with representatives from the Churches and church publishers throughout the UK and Ireland.

Writers for issue 145 were:

Arnold Browne, retired Anglican priest
Daisy Barnes, Artist and Anglican/Methodist worship leader 
Justin Brierley, freelance writer, speaker and broadcaster
Jane Chevous, lived experience activist 
Lynne Chitty, writer and Anglican deacon
Joel Denno, Anglican Licensed Lay Minister and freelance writer
Nick Harding, freelance children’s ministry and safeguarding trainer 
Sam Hargreaves, music in worship adviser
Yvonne Hendrie, Church of Scotland minister
Sarah Hogben, children, families and community worker
Alison Hulse, Methodist learning and development officer 
Chris Neilands, co-founder of ‘Play it by Ear’ drama company
Jared Neusch, Research Assistant and Project Manager, St Mellitus College, London
Andrew Ollerton, theologian, pastor and popular communicator
Rona Orme, Licensed lay minister
Will Van Der Hart, Anglican priest and director of Mind and Soul Foundation
Gillian Warson, music in worship adviser
Lorraine Webb, Methodist local preacher 
Clare Williams, Lecturer in practical theology
Lindsay Wright, freelance writer