Your faith timeline.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I accept your apology. You've been nothing but kind to me more recently, and that means a lot to me.

Thank you.

Sorry to be soft and all that, but this little exchange is very moving.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Grew up in a family strongly - no, utterly - influenced by various forms of Protestantism (Methodism; specifically Primitive rather than Wesleyan, Welsh Calvinism, Low Church Anglicanism and the Welsh Baptist tradition: all very Old Testament) and with a basically ecumenical and pluralistic attitude towards them all. Always had an interest in it all and always a believer. Owned an illustrated Children's Bible and read it regularly as soon as I could. Argued with the Vicar at the village primary school, which was (of course) CofE, because he was frequently wrong about scriptural matters. After I became seriously ill for the first time - I was ten - I found this background to be a useful way of making sense of things. A decade after that, I had a series of medical emergencies and nearly died; more than once in a very short space of time, actually. Certain things happened during the worst part that constitute (I suppose) what would usually be called A Religious Experience, and without it I do not think it particularly likely that I would have survived. Making sense of that is an ongoing activity.