Church Beyond Walls tells inspiring, informative and occasionally funny
stories of how a group of people took Christian spirituality outside of
church buildings to engage a world increasingly uninterested in
religion, God and faith. From imaginative and wide-ranging experiments,
it draws out principles to inspire local churches to express their faith
in their communities, and it shares liturgical and other resources
developed for these occasions. ↵
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Based
in Brighton and known as BEYOND, for over ten years this group of
dreamers, artists and provocateurs have experimented with public art,
created light shows and walking meditations, partnered with retailers to
create spiritual shop window trails, celebrated the festivals of the
church in secular spaces, used folk traditions and more to introduce
people to the Christian faith. Their goal and the aim of this book is to
help local churches create opportunities for epiphanies: moments when
the divine can break into human experience.