A Simple Life: Roland Walls & The Community of The Transfiguration

by John Miller

Overview

For 50 years, a unique and courageous group of people have quietly opted for a life of poverty and the discipline of prayer. Always with the time and care to understand people’s hidden pains, their permanently open meal-table usually rocked with laughter. Drawing exclusively on the memories of the Community’s members, their private papers and the reminiscences of those they have known, this book captures a life of humour, tragedy, inspiration and insight. In our increasingly dehumanising culture, the Community’s devotion to the details of daily life has had a life-changing impact on many people across the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780861537136
Publisher:	Hymns Ancient & Modern
Publication date:	05/29/2014
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

The Very Revd John Miller is a highly appreciated and widely respected minister in the Church of Scotland and an outstanding former Moderator. He is the successful author of Reflections on the Beautitudes and Silent Heroes.

What People are Saying About This

Ricky Ross

The life of the Community of The Transfiguration makes almost no sense at all. It contradicts everything we know about how to get on in this world. A group of people seeming to move from power to poverty; influence to obscurity. Setting out the story so lucidly here, John Miller speaks of faith resonating across 20th/21st century Europe. He illustrates how its deep truths challenged and changed people’s lives. At the heart of this book is a group of people who put Jesus at the centre of everything. Despite their bold attempts at obscurity the goodness seeped out and many of us are the better for that. I met Roland Walls less than ten times in my life. I can remember each occasion vividly and he often asked me the same question: ‘Do you know John Miller?’ I never got to know John until after Roland died but I’m delighted that this unlikely tale was told by someone who was so close to Roland’s heart. ‘Community,’ Roland once said to a group of us, ‘is built on need.’ That need brought many people to those wooden huts in Roslyn. This book will bring many more.

Editorial Reviews

At the heart of this book is a group of people who put Jesus at the centre of everything. Despite their bold attempts at obscurity, the goodness seeped out and many of us are the better for that.

Ricky Ross

This is a remarkable book, about a prophetic community which reveals signs for the future, living centred on Jesus and the Word of God. I hope many in our rich and secular societies can read this book of Christian life, poor and close to the poor.

Jean Vanier

Do read this book, it will encourage you, fire your imagination, perhaps renew your own vocation, learning again what is essential to life, what this world is in need of, and where true treasures are to be found.

Franciscan

This is a captivating, elegantly written and satisfying account of an intentionally low-profile community that has influenced many.

Ron Ferguson