Pleased to say that after quite a gruelling process, my first book is well on the way to being published. The full title is:The Becoming of G-d: What the Trinitarian nature of God has to do with Church and a deep Spirituality for the Twenty First Century
As G-d becomes as a continuing event through human history this God reframes who we are and what Church is called to be. We are all on a journey of ‘individual human-becoming’ and the Church as a ‘transformative event of God’s love and action’. In this way we have rediscovered an ancient:future expression of the Christian faith and church in an Age of New Mysticism.
I particularly explore the high view of ‘community’ held in emerging churches, in an age where being in community is hard to sustain and counter cultural. In fact many do not have the interpersonal skills to choose to live this way even if they wanted to. I therefore address how many emerging churches border on being therapeutic communities for the humanisation of its members inspired by a God who models loving interdependence.
The book also includes images, poems, stories and reflections by contributors from the Emerging Church in the UK, Ireland and the USA including work by our own Michael L Radcliffe and Moot friend Padraig Twomey. The book is to be published by YTC Press in Cambridge, and all proceeds go towards the work of Moot. I will be promoting the book on a tour of the US and Canada in June that looks to be including:
– New York, Buffalo, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver
The book will be available for order soon in the US & UK through YTC Press.
