Inspiration from the "Guardian"

My friend, Alan Halden, provided the spur for my next step on this route. Alan was responsible for discovering and circulating (See Note 1) an article headed "Untruths that aid the mighty's rule over the humble", which had been printed in The Guardian on Monday 29th October 1990. John MacDonald Smith, the writer of the piece, was secretary of Clergymen Against Nuclear Arms and his article aimed to show how the Bible had been misused to support male hierarchy and patriarchal state violence. That it was a hard hitting article is exemplified by the following quote:-

"The church does not fulfil its own brief because of its over-concentration on the written words of a Bible put together by people with an axe to grind centuries ago, and also because it pays too little attention to the initiating revelation."

That article was the spur to my putting keyboard to computer screen again and generating the next essay, marking another jump in the process of changing my mind-set.

©Derrick Phillips
1994