Michael Reader-Harris is a Lay Reader (lay preacher) at St Silas’ Church, Glasgow. For 22 years he has been responsible for a monthly service of Morning Prayer from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. About half of those who come to this service are under 35 years old. He has led seven weekends going deeper into different parts of the service, from the responses to the Te Deum.

Month by month he aims to help those who come to the service to understand how the service works and therefore to enjoy it.

In this book he brings together what he has learnt and taught, for the benefit of a wider audience.

Michael Reader-Harris read maths at Oxford and has a PhD in applied maths from St Andrews.

He became a Lay Reader (lay preacher) in St Andrews in 1980.

Michael married Susan in 1985: they have one son and one daughter. He was House Manager for about 25 years at Scripture Union camp.

He worked at NEL (the National Engineering Laboratory) from 1981 to 2023 (MBCS, CEng, FIMA, CMath), measuring fluid flow in pipelines. He was responsible for the Reader-Harris/Gallagher Equation for flow measurement using orifice plates (used to measure roughly £1 trillion of natural gas so far). He wrote ‘Orifice plates and Venturi tubes’ (published by Springer).

He is responsible for a monthly service of Prayer Book Morning Prayer at his church, St Silas’, Glasgow. He also teaches a Greek class and leads a Biblical Languages Weekend each year.