Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #280 - I am finding your religious turn and proselytising difficult. How do you reconcile your faith with the church’s devastating...

Humans disappoint, especially those we expect to share our beliefs and values. We see other believers fail to display the deep love for one another and the stranger that is commended in our sacred texts. We witness others compromise our deepest values, sacrificed for access to power. Integrity seems in short supply. We attend services where the peo

Religion, filed in the private sphere, having little to do with production and having little to say about my own subjective feelings of love, was no longer keeping time.

While these charismatic evangelicals continued talking about a personal relationship with Jesus and seeking ecstatic experiences in worship, they nevertheless made faith formation about commitment to the idea of Jesus, stripping formation, ironically, of its transcendent encounter with divine action, making conversion an epistemological shift rathe

Christianity wasn’t all about me and my reward. It couldn’t be that self-centered and that self-serving. If it was, it wouldn’t be worthy of bearing the name of Christ.

The spread of Christianity echoed the principles of the Subject, putting forth the ultimate Father, the almighty God in whose great hands lay the fate of all His people, the shepherd to us as flock. Under Him came another father-figure in the form of the Pope, under whom came widely distributed Fathers of local churches. A veritable Russian doll of