Wondering what you’d like for Christmas? Or what to give to others? This might just be your answer!
Transition Movement for Churches by Tim Gorringe and Rose Beckham has just been published by Canterbury Press.
The Transition Town movement has really taken off in recent years. An emphasis on building local resilience and community-based responses to climate change and peak oil has seen hundreds of groups spring up both in Ireland and the UK.
Many Christians are involved but this is the first book to equip local churches to engage with the movement towards greater simplicity.
It provides a theological vision of the church as a Transition movement by showing the commonalities that already exist, signs that the movement is grounded in the visionary and prophetic and examples of green church initiatives and Transition projects as well as suggestions of how to incorporate Transition ideas into worship and pastoral practice and policy. Also, ways to build bridges between churches and Transition communities.
The Right Rev James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, says: ‘This book … shows why a world view inspired by Jesus, child of both God and the earth, encourages us all to be in transition and make good the earth for God.’
You can see a review of the book by Eco-Congregation Scotland’s Environmental Chaplain, Trevor Jamison, here.