This is the engaging story of how an idea for a new church community, rooted in the central tradition of the Church of England, became a reality, and seven years later is a self-sustaining, thriving community and shop, resourcing churches all over the country and beyond.

Told in a readable, honest, and often humorous narrative style, Simple, Generous, Open explores serious questions of pioneering mission, church planting, renewal, sustainability and inclusion in the context of considerable anxiety around church decline, dwindling finances and division over sexuality.

The example of St Clare’s offers an antidote to the widespread anxiety over church decline and will be welcomed by many churches seeking to be authentic to their core Anglican tradition.