Vision

Everywhere, every day, we see evidence of damage to human life and the environment. Our communities, our children, and the institutions we depend on are all vulnerable. The critical challenge humanity faces is how we can individually and corporately take responsibility for the world we have contributed to creating.

The signs are all around us -  in 20 years' time, the primary preoccupation of the human race may be with its own survival and sustainability. Not only the sustainability of our environment but the sustainability of the social fabric of all our communities, institutions and wider societies. The overwhelming evidence suggests that the current status quo is unsustainable.

We believe humanity needs to transform itself and that to do this we need to challenge radically and actively the way we live as human beings.

Over forty years experience of working at the pressure points of society tells us that the world can only be transformed inasmuch as human beings as persons can find purpose, transform and use their full capacities. Opportunities need to be created which enable people to transform themselves so they can transform their roles and their institutions, working with the realities of where they are. This is where the vision, strategy and expertise of the Grubb Institute lies - in creating such opportunities.

Through offering our skills we seek to gather and work with concerned people in creating the conditions for a sustainable, humane and inclusive world - what we understand as God's creation - where people can deal with suffering, hate, selfishness, and greed and live by the values of justice, forgiveness, service, respect and love.

For us an inclusive world challenges us, as members of God's Kingdom, to explore and develop understandings of the experience, both of the presence and absence of faith and belief in all members of the community.  Toward this end the Institute is eager to explore through dialogue questions of faith and belief with other groups.