One thing I didn’t mention in my profile was that I am also a Christian. It wasn’t always the case. To be sure I was born into what was then referred to as The Church of England and is now generally referred to as the Anglican Church. Then around the age of 17 I decided that I was agnostic, and shortly after that an atheist. It seemed a good way to escape the clutches of a vengeful and punitive God eager to log your sins and condemn you. God was not good to have around a lustful teenager.

Atheism served me well enough for many years until, apparently unprompted, I was knee-capped by what is often described as a conversion experience. As a psychologist that provided a fruitful source of reflection which brought me to a fresh understanding of faith. Before anyone panics and assumes I want to convert you all, the most important thing I learned from my own experience was that everyone has to discover faith in their own way and in their own time - which may be never.

So all this is just context for the views I express here. If they sometimes seem a bit off the wall, you now know where it’s coming from.