It was a comforting way to live, with every decision a seemingly easy one predicated purely on whether something good would be upheld and something bad would be struck down.Īnd yet as I grew older and began to question the inconsistencies between what I had been told and how the world actually is – if you choose, as so many don’t, to loo up and over the impenetrable wall of rigid belief and consider whether something else might be at work in the world beyond narrow, legalistic dogma – it became clear to me that we live in a world of complex, nuanced and diverse greys that require thoughtful consideration to navigate and which don’t always present as clear and easy answers.
Growing up as the son of a Baptist minister in a family heavily involved in the church, the world was presented as a starkly illuminated contrast of black and white, a demarcation between Christian morality which was, naturally enough, presented as good, and worldly values which were quite obviously and unarguably bad. (cover image courtesy Hachette Australia)
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