The Church is living into a death wish at the moment, knowing and not wanting to know the truth about abusive individuals like Peter Ball and John Smyth; knowing and not wanting to know the truth about the Bible; knowing and not wanting to know what we really believe about God.
God's Truth twenty-eight years on
Twenty-eight years ago in God’s Truth: Essays to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Honest to God, published in 1988 and edited by Eric James, John Bowden wrote “There is need for vision not only inside the churches but outside them. Vision and a concern actually to make some differences where there is a crying need for change. Honesty is quite manifestly not enough; more people are going to have to do some fighting.” The same concerns haunt me today.