People of the Way

People of the Way is part of the Spirituality and Society series, which explores how Christian spirituality shapes our inner life and calls us into courageous engagement with the world. In this volume, the road becomes the place where faith is walked. Before the early Christians were called Christians, they were known by a different name: people of the Way. The book is a return to what that name once meant.

All the chapters were previously published in Graham's substack, The Graham Joseph Hill Substack. Through meditations on twelve scenes from the Gospels (a teaching about treasure in the Sermon on the Mount, a rich young ruler kneeling in the road, a field of wild lilies, a basin and a towel, a wilderness, a hymn of self-emptying love), the book traces three of the great movements at the centre of Jesus's teaching: from material success to spiritual riches, from competition to compassion, from power to servanthood. A final chapter offers a meditation on the week that changed everything, where the three movements meet at the cross.

This is a summons to apprentice ourselves again to the Master: to notice where our treasure is and move it, to stop measuring ourselves against the people around us, to pick up the towel, to kneel.

Features of this Book

• Twelve meditations on the way Jesus walked
• The Sermon on the Mount for daily life
• Servant leadership and the pattern of Christ
• Compassion, mercy, and the practice of presence
• A weekly practice and reflection question with each chapter