Recently I was talking about the tensions of inhabiting an evangelical environment without being much of an evangelical and the tension that arose between being part of that environment and part of the world. Well I realise that I only looked at one side of the coin.
There is tension on the other side aswell though, [...]
Amongst my recent bargain £1 buys from the SPCK was Overcoming Loneliness and Making Friends by Marianna Csoti. Now at this point please don’t get the impression that the person behind this computer is a tank top recluse, I’m not.
I got the book because at times I struggle to get out of my [...]
Walking along it’s great to be seeing the emerging buds on the end of the tree branches, and the daffodils starting to bloom.
Can’t explain fully, but after the gloom of autumn and darkness of winter noticing the new beginnings this year is special. Hopefully it really is the start of a new season.
The blocks of 20 minutes I spend on the train have become an oasis. They have become my time, when I can plug into the i-pod and read something which is not a text book. This week I have been relaxing with The Island by Victoria Hislop.
It is a strange story, primarily set around [...]
So glad I’m car free. It meant when I found out today that all sale titles in our local SPCK, which is a significant number, were down to just £1 – as they are trying to clear as many as possible by 1st March – I was atleast constrained by what I could physically [...]
If you’ve read the last few days you may be thinking, well why do I stay? You might be wondering how I can have, at points, so much so negativity towards evangelicals but still go to an evangelical church and effectively be part of that sub-culture.
Well, I have been part of that whole subculture for [...]
One of the things that I find difficult about the whole evo world is the way that certain views appear to be put forward as held certainties. However, when you talk to people individually many of them admit that the issues are actually so complicated that they are not sure what they think. On the [...]
Something I discovered as I grew older was that being a GLE provides a a cosy ickle sub-culture, which is really quite a small world.
As I temporarily gave up Greenbelt and started to “do” Spring Harvest and Detling I would regularly bump into a range of people who I’d known over the years. [...]
Before I leave my experience of evangelicalsim as a young person and move onto my experiences, and tensions as a slightly older person I make one observation that for me the level of control the church sought to control was lower simply because I came from a “non-Christian home”. There were in some cases allowances [...]
As I neared the end of my teens the whole tension between being a good little evangelical (GLE) and a “normal” person kind of got an ickle complicated.
As the decade of the rah rah skirt and rave turned into the decade of Britpop the “normal” thing was to get into a relationship, have sex [...]