Hi!
If, like me you have felt on the fringes of faith, looking in with more questions than answers, I hope you find something here. I have been journeying for years, and am now discovering a different God.
And that is mostly what this blog is about.
It's about the difficulties I've had with my early fundamentalist Christian background. It's about the impossibility I felt of ever having a relationship with God. It's about always feeling as though I was never off the starting blocks, never mind about running the race.Through years of wandering I am now encountering a God who I experience as loving and kind and who wants the very best for me. A lifetime of knocking around all sorts of churches has taught me one thing – that many people base their images of God on untruths.
I now write articles on aspects of Christian faith, particularly the struggles many experience with their negative, damaging and painful images of God. I write both for myself to exorcise the fundamentalist demons of my childhood, and for others to offer an alternative perspective, hope maybe, for all those alienated by a damaging theology of certainty.
My new God is a God of love and humility and joy. These writings are for others also on the borderlands, looking in, needing to find a home.
My mantra is ‘Religion is for those who are afraid of going to hell, spirituality is for those who have already been there’. (Deloria Jnr)
I am discovering another God. An expansive God. A God who throws her head back and laughs.
One who will put her arms around me and give me a big hug, just when I need it.