'Through the Looking Glass of Generosity' - Alison Milbank & Mike Moynagh

Event details

Date: Monday 10 March 2025

Time: 5:15 - 6:30 pm

Venue: Wycliffe Hall, 52-54 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PW

The event includes:

• A Welcome from Revd Dr Michael Lloyd, Principal of Wycliffe Hall
• Alison Milbank and author Mike Moynagh talking about Mike's books
• Opportunity for questions from the audience
• Drinks and nibbles
• Book signing and sales

Getting here: Wycliffe Hall is on major bus routes. Limited parking may be available on site (please contact us by email if you have any special access requirements) and pay-and-display on-street parking is available close by in Norham Gardens. 

All are welcome: the event is free to attend and booking is not required. 

About Mike Moynagh

Revd Dr MICHAEL MOYNAGH is a nationally recognised missiologist and ecclesiologist. He has an international speaking and consulting ministry on new forms of church, which includes being a consultant to the Church of England’s Greenhouse initiative.

Associated with Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, he is author of numerous books including Church for Every Context and Church in Life.

About Giving the Church

The nucleus of the church’s vocation is to join the Spirit in giving communion in Christ to others, in the form of new Christian communities, for the benefit of the world. But can the church be a welcome gift?”

In Giving the Church, leading ecclesiologist Michael Moynagh draws together recent thinking from the worlds of ecclesiology and missiology with significant sociological work on the idea of ‘gift’, to provide a much-needed theological rationale for some of the key missiological and ecclesiological movements in today’s church.

Endorsements for the book:

“Giving the Church is a unique contribution to our thinking about the church and God’s mission for our times, based on wide reading, deep reflection, clear and accessible exposition, a steady flow of stimulating insights, and the persuasive authority of its argument.” -- Paul Avis

"Based on wide research in theology and gift theory, and drawing on decades of experience, Moynagh explores the meaning of the church – especially new Christian communities – as forms of gift-exchange. The result is rich, provocative, and deeply significant for a secularised era, which needs to encounter fresh and accessible embodiments of grace." -- John M.G. Barclay

About The Church as Gift

When Alice stepped through the looking glass, she entered a completely different world. This little book invites you to pass through a theological looking glass and totally re-imagine the church. What would it be like if we saw the church as a gift from God to others to benefit the world? And what does healthy giving look like? Easy to read, the book explores the very nature of generosity. How you give may never be the same again!

The Church as a Gift is a short popular version of the more academic, Giving the Church.

Endorsements for the book:

"Reading this book created a profound theological paradigm within which I had to rethink my attitude to mission, church planting and community formation. It is prophetic in its vision..." -- Revd Canon John McGinley, Myriad Lead at the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication

"A punchy, intriguing and thought-provoking challenge to be radically generous as a church. Mike not only calls us to learn how to give, but also provides a very fresh look at the need to receive." -- Lucy Moore, Head of the Growing Faith Foundation and founder of Messy Church