Emerging Downunder

This books taps into the current hunger for spirituality, the death pains of obsolete church forms, and the rising tide of hope felt by many Christians. It suggests ways the fragmented church may reconnect both with its root and the contemporary environment, providing practical examples of church that bring praying, eating, learning and hospitality together in one place.

Ray Simpson is a celibate Anglican Priest and has been a minister in churches in Britain's industrial Midlands, multi-racial London, and rural East Anglia, and he has planted a neighbourhood church, sponsored by six church streams (Protestant, Catholic and Quaker) in Bowthorpe, Norwich. He is the Guardian of The Community of Aidan and Hilda, a globally dispersed community that is focussed on weaving together the separated strands of Christianity, healing the lands and resourcing people in discovering new monastic ways. He is the author of a number of best-selling books on Celtic spirituality, including his most recent A Pilgrim Way: New Celtic Monasticism for Everyday People