Life On a Modern Planet: A manifesto for progress (Manchester University Press, 1995)

A peer-reviewed and fairly well-received account of how 10 billion people might manage quite well on Planet Earth. It assessed climate change as the one obvious big unkown and supposed that capitalism and good government mattered more than green orthodoxy.

Here are various 1995 newspaper accounts of the controversy.

Fools For God
(Collins, 1986)

An exploration of the past and present of Christian monasticism - a rather personal mixture of history and spiritual tourism.