Saving the Prodigal Parent

Growing up in South Korea, Chang-Soo Park formed a special attachment to Britain. He'd never visited the country, but as a member of the Korean Evangelical Holiness Church, which follows the teachings of John Wesley, the father of Methodism, he looked to Britain as a spiritual homeland. So he was shocked when he came to Birmingham to study theology in 1999 and discovered one of Britain's largest concentrations of Asians and Muslims. So many people had "committed themselves to Islam," he says sadly. "I used to think Britain was a Christian country. I was very disappointed." Worse, he says, was the...