Wrexham Vicar launches new book on his Deliverance Ministry

A new book written by the Vicar of St Giles’ in Wrexham is revealing the reality of investigations into ghosts, poltergeists, and other supernatural phenomena.

Deliverance is based on Revd Dr Jason Bray’s work as a Deliverance Minister over the last 20 years and is already attracting plenty of attention.  Extensive features and serialisations are being run in major UK newspapers, as Jason explains: “The book is proving of interest to the mainstream media.  I’ve done interviews with the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail, This Morning on ITV want to talk to me, and a television company has bought the rights to make a series, based on the stories in the book.  It will be more in the style of Call the Midwife than the Exorcist.”

Jason is Convenor of the St Asaph Deliverance Group and gets called out to unusual happenings such as ghostly sightings, possible demon possession and other supernatural paranormal activity.  He is the first Anglican Priest to write on this subject for a general audience. He explains: “The book provides a general theological framework but without being too heavy. In the past, books on ghosts or poltergeists or the supernatural have either been very technical or for the ‘batty’ end of the market. My book covers this subject seriously and includes moments of observational comedy too.”

“It’s my job to investigate,” he says, “and I have a duty as a Deliverance Minister not to jump to conclusions. What we find in the end though is that the majority of especially poltergeist cases are caused by an emotional reaction to circumstances.   Things like teenage angst, mental illness, the arrival of a new baby or even major structural changes to a building can all underpin and be the cause of strange activity.”

But this isn’t to minimise the important role Jason and other Deliverance Ministers play. “These happenings are real,” he says, “and praying with people, asking God to deal with it, blessing their homes and occasionally referring them to a doctor makes a huge difference to people and their lives.”

Jason has been the Vicar of St Giles Church in the centre of Wrexham for almost six year.  He is married to Laura and they have two grown up sons. St Giles is part of the Wrexham Mission Area in the Diocese of St Asaph, one of the six dioceses of the Church in Wales, an independent Province of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

You can read more about Jason’s book in the forthcoming edition of the diocesan magazine, Teulu Asaph.

Deliverance is published by Hodder and Stoughton and is available in bookshops and online now.