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Gathered for Life: Official Report, VI Assembly, World Council of Churches, Vancouver, Canada, 24 July-10 August, 1983. Edited by David Gill. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1983. viii + 355 pp. $12.95.

David Gill, general secretary of the Uniting Church in Australia, is an old hand at interpreting world church gatherings, having served on the staff of the World Council of Churches. The abundance of materials dealt with in this volume could not have been organized any better. The first chapter is Gill's appraisal of what happened, and it is an excellent evaluation. The other four chapters and twelve appendixes are reports on the themes, addresses, summaries, lists of participants, and the "Message from the Assembly." Gill looks at the past, present, and future of this ecumenical fellowship which consists of 300 churches on all continents. This book will be helpful for persons who have read only the media reports of the Assembly. News reports consisted largely of comments on the world affairs section. As Gill points out, a few even "tried to interpret the whole exercise in the light of the current wrangles between Washington and Moscow." Worship, theology, and hopes for growing together spiritually all consumed a great amount of time at Vancouver. The general secretary, Philip Potter, wrote the preface. The book concludes with the 24-page "Constitution and Rules of the World Council of Churches," something anyone seriously interested in the organization should read.