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Trade Review"This powerful book understands that the personal is political and the political is theological. Its authors offer a challenge to power and privilege in the church, daring to imagine God’s justice in its place. Their celebration of how far we have come, after 20 years of Inclusive Church, is tempered by the truth of how far we still have to journey before we are a church that honours the God of the margins, a church that has room for all God’s people. “The work is not finished,” in Fiona MacMillan’s words, “but something has begun”. -- Naomi Lawson-Jacobs
"...brings together cries from the depths of exclusion, pain and grief, with a burning vision of God’s expansive love and grace, in a prophetic, multi-voiced, gospel call to repentance, belonging, justice and joy. Let the Spirit, through the pages of this book, encourage and challenge you, teach and transform you, and even – miracle of miracles – give you hope for the Church!" -- Al Barrett
Table of ContentsContributors Foreword – Rachel Mann Introduction - Dan Barnes-Davies 1 ‘What is Inclusion?’ by Ruth Wilde 2 ‘Belonging Together’ by Michael Jagessar 3 ‘Building Bridges’ by Ruth Hunt 4 ‘Poverty Has a Woman’s Face’ by Loretta Minghella 5 ‘Dismantling Whiteness & Deconstructing Mission Christianity’ by Anthony Reddie 6 ‘Still Calling from the Edge’ by Fiona MacMillan 7 ‘What Might a Trans-Affirming Church look like?’ by Jack Woodruff 8 ‘Carnival and Chaos!’ by June Boyce-Tillman 9 ‘The Church of the Future’ by Ruth Wilde Epilogue – ‘Beyond Inclusion’ – An Interview with Nick Bundock
