I moved to Cardiff to become a pioneer minister because I wanted to face the coming culture head-on. If we're moving to a post-religious culture in western Europe I want to face it head-on. If the future is empty church buildings being turned into restaurants and climbing wall centres, then I want to face it head-on. If we're heading into the least religious culture planet Earth has ever seen, then I want to be fully immersed in that culture. If the future of the church is 5 people meeting in a living room, then I want to start doing that now. I don't want to spend the next 40 years serving a conventional church and seeing it slowly decline. I don't want to spend my career managing decline. If the future of religion is being a tiny tiny minority in a non-religious indifferent post-Christendom culture then I want to start working out how to do that now. I don't want to try to outrun the coming tide of non-religious culture. I don't want to spend m...
Seeking paradise in Cardiff