Böcker av John Barnett

One windy winter's morning, Fred Roll, Windy B's favourite baker, heard some bad news. Fred knew immediately that he would have to do something to help. The local hospital would close unless the good people of Windy B could raise enough money to save it. And if they failed? Would the brave baker risk everything and go on the dangerous search for the mysterious treasure chest hidden somewhere in Bumble Bay?

When Fred Roll, Windy B's favourite baker, opened his bedroom window very early one bitterly cold January morning, he knew things were not as they should be. A short while later, an unexpected visitor arrived through the heavy snow and gave Fred a challenge he certainly was not expecting. For Fred, his wife Heidi, and everybody living in wonderful Bumble Bay, the snow adventures that followed would be talked about for many years to come.

The growing number of mixed-faith families and personal cross-faith explorations is leading to a fluidity in religious engagement that would once have been considered undesirable or even impossible. This book gives unprecedented practical content to the reality of multiple religious participation, balancing and challenging the more theoretical descriptions that are developing.The author, a Christian priest and practical theologian, has spent several years worshipping as a Sikh while continuing in his Christian ministry, and has made this the basis of a sustained piece of autoethnographic reflection. His frank presentation of the challenges and the joys he encountered is in places deeply personal but also engages with the expectations of the communities with which he was involved, and the widest themes of religious identity and loyalty. The author's own experience is supplemented by interviews with others who relate to both Sikhi and Christianity, by focus groups with colleagues, and by wide reading related to the issues involved. He encourages us to take part in similar boundary-crossing, reflecting in our own lives the self-giving friendliness of God.