A courageous Community quietly opted for a life of poverty and the discipline of prayer. With time and care to understand people’s hidden pains, their open meal-table usually rocked with laughter. This authorised account captures the humour, tragedy, inspiration and insight - and the life-changing impact that reached across the world

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.

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. -- Ricky Ross