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Ian has mined deep into monastic tradition, including the early desert fathers and mothers of Egypt, and has drawn from it three life-giving principles that can prove life-giving to old and fresh expressions of church. He writes as a poet, family man and planter of a new-monastic community. The cave represents the sacred space, the life of prayer that must be at the heart of a church, as must hospitality, symbolised by the refectory or kitchen. The road calls pew-sitters to become listeners to God, who, as they respond, become a church on the move. This is well-written, succinct and timely.