Matthew's Journal

Well, I knew I was doomed when I found I had answered 'other' to all three questions after 'I am a Christian'.

What flavour of Christian am I? I think the best answer is probably 'idiosyncratic' - having been baptised and confirmed in the CoE, and spent a number of years as an 'evangelical atheist', I've found a home in the Methodist Church.

I don't really know how I'd describe my theology - certainly not evangelical, charismatic, conservative or Orthodox (I assume deliberately with a capital?), but at the same time, not liberal in that my theology is often not that much like that of the set of Christians who call themselves 'liberal Christians', if you see what I mean. I guess if I had to come up with a phrase, it'd be Wesleyan, but that's not quite right either.

As to the last, when I looked at the tickyboxes, there were many I would have ticked, save that I read the explanatory text first, and now I think I need to do some serious thought about how I define those things, so I can post something a bit more coherent about how I would define some of them. I will, I promise, but not tonight...