Pilgrim

Christianity is often in the news, on TV, in the tabloid media, on the internet and of course all over social media.   Mostly though, I don’t hear the Gospel being preached, at least not very clearly.   How many times do we instead see court cases regarding whether someone can wear a cross at work, whether a registrar should keep or lose their job over their stance on same sex marriage, of child abuse carried out in one church or another, or because of warped views on theology; of cases of young babies at the centre of complex medical cases with grieving parents at loggerheads with healthcare professionals.   Ultimately- we hear of course about the extremes of misogyny and homophobia spread by a particular brand of so called evangelical Christianity. What sort of image of God is portrayed in the media then? A poe faced old Man who doesn’t trust women, and trusts men even less; with a long list of rules as long as …. Well eternity? An all-powerful super-being w