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Introduction

These commentaries are the result of my personal experience and study. They reflect my perspective on Christian doctrine—the narrative that shapes a believer’s faith—and how that narrative influences our ability to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Today, Christianity often seems disconnected from the broader cultural conversation—reduced, in many ways, to an inconvenient subculture that increasingly grapples with spiritual diversity and social identity. This growing irrelevance raises a pressing question: why has the Church drifted so far from meaningful engagement with society? What concerns me most is how rarely this issue is addressed. Leadership from the pulpit is more focused on the organisation of the institution itself—an oversight that, in my view, has a direct and damaging effect on the health of the Church.

About Me

My earliest experiences were shaped, but not led, by a Christian view of life—a position that continued for 40 years before I made a personal decision to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. In 2001, I was part of a leadership team that welcomed a new Pastor to our Church. Not long after, we were confronted with a series of theological and relational challenges that ultimately split the congregation in two. It took three subsequent Pastors and many years for the Church to heal from this division. I still recall the sadness, anger, and disillusionment that followed—the sense of confusion—the lingering weight of unanswered questions. Through that experience, I realised two things—that I knew very little about why I believed; and second, that whatever I did know wasn’t truly my own.

My Latest Commentary

Trevor Strange Trevor Strange

Godlessness

The tension between secular and religious worldviews has been constant throughout history but in recent times we’ve witnessed a strong increase in secular views about life and its moral framework. This virtue signalling has provided a platform to confront the perceived moral intolerance of our political and legal systems. It’s like cancer that’s been 40 years gestating and history has found a way of repeating itself. Human nature has always been self-serving, and much of what we’re witnessing today is the result of unbridled amoral outrage, but the hypocrisy in this outrage is somewhat ironical. Sadly we’re witnessing a vocal section of society becoming intolerant but demanding the tolerance of others. Simultaneously there’s been a general departure from the religious teachings of the past and subsequently, left us with a moral vacuum that naturally needs to be filled. Civil society needs to be accountable to something of shared meaning, even if it’s only a golden calf. This push to establish a redefined view of values is essentially the establishment of secular religion or at least a neo-religious consensus about moral values. It's fascinating, to say the least. However, the aimless pursuit of ideological archetypes has historically always ended in self-destruction, and one can see why when confronted with people saying things like “it’s greedy for a man to keep the money he’s earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

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