About

I think about the Bible and theology a lot, even though I’m not a professional theologian or minister. My academic background is in sociology, and my profession is government/public sector. I regularly preach and may be a ‘resident theologian’ in my church.

I slowly became interested in theology through a bookish friend of mine as a teenager. I spent a year at Bible College undertaking the first year of a ministries degree, but quickly realised pastoral ministry wasn’t for me! I have been part of Pentecostal, Anglican and Baptist churches in the 29 years I have been a Christian, and part of no church. Now I attend a small progressive Seventh-Day Adventist church. My theology can be described as ‘eclectic’ rather than ‘confessional’. I view myself as an Evangelical and catholic Christian primarily, and I appreciate a wide range of Christian traditions – Reformed, Baptist, Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist etc – without feeling tied to any specific theology. I do not regard one of these as right and all the others as wrong, but all of them as more or less accurate portrayals of the truth. I enjoy reading both classic and contemporary works of theology from a range of perspectives.

Currently, I’m slowly working my way through Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics – a few pages a week. My theological heroes include: Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, James Arminius, John Wesley, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and James William McClendon Jr.