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About Me

I am the creative tension between opposing forces… I am held in the gravitational pull of an absolute Secret that sits in the core of my being while these opposing tensions trace concentric circles around the Mystery that alone is…For we lovers of paradox, life is like a star that shines all the more brightly the darker the night. It is the darkness that gives things their depth, and we are prepared to give the darkness its due, not because we like to be obscure but because we love the brightness of the stars. The dark ring of ambiguity around life is a crucial ingredient to its richness… the opposite of all this, the result of turning our backs on the enigma of our lives and embracing unqualified and unambiguous clarity, is the superficial life, a life made artificially easy by facile answers and too easy acquisitions…

Education

Bachelor Arts (Honours Philosophy)

Graduate Certificate in Theology

Doctor of Philosophy

Career

I have worked in many different sectors of the community in chronological order: hospitality, libraries, telecommunications, community work, local government and universities. I am currently a foot courier, part-time teacher, philosopher and free-lance writer, and Integral Christian scholar-pratitioner...

Hobbies and Interests

My central hobby is historical Jesus scholarship. The overall aim of this research and writing is to show how the dangerous memory of Jesus, in its immediacy and precise orientation, and grasped in its entirety, can attain complete expression in the thought-forms available in our own age, and there create a world-view of such a moral and powerful kind that it holds the same place today as it did in late-Jewish metaphysics and eschatology...