I’m not quite sure where I sit in my relation to Christianity. On the one hand, I’m close to a position that C.S. Lewis expressed, when he called himself “the most reluctant convert in all England”.

There is something in Christianity that has spoken to me since my teens, when I first encountered it properly, and called to me – for a while as a young man I even considered becoming a monk. But for most of my adult life I have loved the Christian mythos, while remaining deeply ambivalent about the institutional Church – especially in its more demonstrative and declarative forms.

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