Believe Differently

I am surprised that a couple of individuals in particular, who I note have subscribed already to this blog, did not pick me up on my post: “Struggling with Scripture”. In that blog I associated the literalist and fundamental perspectives, when in actual fact, the two are completely different - though the fundamentalist may not agree.  [...]

Theology is not meant to be done in ivory towers by people who call themselves theologians. It is something to be worked out in the blood and guts of ordinary lives. I am convinced - for all sorts of reasons that I hope will come out in future blogs - that theology is something which should be contextualized [...]

Nietzsche suggests that all life can be characterised by a “will to power”; that all life essentially shares an ambition to dominate and exercise control over its neighbour. He saw this not only in the dimension of human relations but all the way down to that of the lot of a micro organism.1 Effectively life, even [...]

Although I hate the baggage that is now associated with the label, I am an Evangelical Christian. As such, I am passionate about Scripture, but I am not a fundamentalist, and I am not a literalist. In my view, such approaches to biblical interpretation violate the text. The Biblical text is textured, multi layered, rich [...]

I am in the process of trying to decide what to do about church. I currently attend what I would describe as a large London Evangelical Anglican church. More and more though, I feel I do not fit in. I am certainly on the periphery in terms of theology but recently I have found myself [...]

There is a popular platitude within Evangelical Christian circles which is framed as a prayer and goes along the lines:
More of you Lord, and less of me.
It seems to echo the words of John the Baptist and as such has an air of profundity. I no longer buy it though. The last time I heard [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have had to change my mind on a whole number of matters. Perhaps, I am ashamed to say, one of the most difficult areas in which I have had to rethink is in respect to my attitudes toward gay persons. I would like to say that my [...]

About five years ago, I came to, what was for me, a radical new place in my faith. A realization that many of the doubts I had been experiencing, and questions I had been asking concerning my understanding of the Christian Gospel, might actually be inspired. It was a watershed moment; I realized that if [...]