Ash Barker 
No Wastelands [EPUB ebook] 
How to grow seedbeds of Shalom in your neighbourhood

Foreword by Brian Mc Laren

Introduction: Not Buried, But Planted

Part A. Beating The Weeds (As Best We Can)

Chapter 1: Weeds That Choke Potential

Chapter 2: Invasive Weeds That Choke The Harvest

Chapter 3: Weeds As Signs Of Life In Wastelands?

Chapter 4: Treating Weeds With Hope

Part A. Practices To Try

Part B. Sowing Seeds Of Shalom: What Can God’s Vision Of Shalom Mean Locally?

Chapter 5: Place-making And The Seeds Of Shalom

Chapter 6: ‘Fear Not!’ — Seeds Of Shalom And Resisting Fear

Chapter 7: ‘Great Joy’ — Joy And The Seeds Of Shalom

Chapter 8: ‘Shalom On Earth?’

Part B. Practices To Try

Part C. The Soil We Need

Chapter 9: Soils And Enchanted Worldviews

Chapter 10: Hard Paths — Lacking Awareness

Chapter 11: Stony Fields — Lacking Grit

Chapter 12: Thorny Grounds — Lacking Trust

Chapter 13: Good Soils — Praxis Understanding And Action

Part C. Practices to Try: Toward an Incarnational Spirituality — entering your C.A.V.E daily.

Part D. Sustainable Roots, Branches Ready For Fruit

Chapter 14: Not All Roots And Branches Can Grow The Fruit We Need

Chapter 15: Roots Systems For Sustainability

Chapter 16: Branches Prepared For Fruitfulness

Part D. Practices To Try

Part E. Grow In Seasons (Not Against Them)

Chapter 17: The Celtic Season of Samhain — Winters Of Our Discontent And Discovery

Chapter 18: The Celtic Season Of Imbolc — Spring’s Gestations And Birthing

Chapter 19: The Celtic Season of Bealtaine — Summertime’s Flourishings And Rests

Chapter 20: The Celtic Season of Fomhar — Autumn’s Harvests And Endings (Again)

Part E. Practices to Try: Eternal Seasons Labyrinth Walk

Conclusions: Possibilities for Seedbeds of Shalom

Rev Dr Ash Barker is an Australian shalom activist, communicator, and Pioneer Minister who has served for over 30 years among urban people and places facing poverty. He now lives in Winson Green, Birmingham, UK, where he founded Seedbeds to help communities growseedbeds of shalom through local leadership programmes, now in the UK, Ukraine, Myanmar, and Australia. An inspiring speaker and author of 9 books, Ash’s Ph D in missiology was informed by his 12 years living in Bangkok’s largest slum.