Books by The Revd Canon Robin Greenwood

Being Church offers ideas and strategies, based on real experience and detailed reflection, on processes that offer support and challenge to church leaders and especially clergy, in relation to the diocese and ecumenical relations.

A practical manual for churches considering going over to a collaborative, team form of ministry. It examines how to establish and maintain such a team, and features diagrams and quotations.

An adult confirmation course. Each chapter gives material for the members of the group to read in advance. There is a framework or plan for a group meeting, with detailed ideas for activities and discussion. The sessions are equally for seekers and confirmation candidates, and for teenagers as well as adults.

Here is a wise and practical guide for local churches learning to navigate their way forward. It is about priests and people, differently but together, transforming the church and its locality through engaging deeply and realistically with God and with life in the world. Nearly fifteen years after his classic Transforming Priesthood, Robin Greenwood has added this fine companion volume, enriched by further research and wide experience of the Church in diverse situations.' David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge.

In the Local Ministry movement every Christian person has a gift to offer and everyone should be free to use these gifts. This vision gives the opportunity to explore the connections between faith and life and should be a force for renewal in the Church.

Looks at how ministers are trained to work collaboratively, how congregations learn this new attitude, how it relates to a mission-shaped church and the leadership and new patterns of community which go with it.

A theological reappraisal of the present and future role of the parish priest in Britain. Although written primarily with Anglicans in mind, the book is also full of insights for partner churches.