theology

The media is so preoccupied with conflict, trivia and greed that it rarely takes God seriously. It tends to sneer at those who have something thoughtful to say about eternity, clashing as it may with the here, now, sexy and fiscal. So how a letter from Mr  Brian Wilson of Bristol, slipped through the massed defences of The Times letters police on September 13 is hard to guess. But good for him. He wanted to press the need for a 'new theology...to win the assent of thinking people who have abandoned traditional churches and their outdated mythologies...' Mr Wilson is so right. Amazingly, educated people are still standing up in churches reciting middle-ages creeds when belief has become much more credible and science compatible, in our time. What Mr Wilson may not know, and the media has not recognised, is that new Christian-based theology is up, running and gathering speed around the world. It is known by various names, notably Progressive Christianity, and sustained by exceptional theologians saying things that should meet the intellectual and spiritual needs of the most cynical seeker. Try info@pcnbritain.org.uk or the website at http://www.pcnbritain.org.uk/ Believable, universal, inclusive faith is on offer, and it is not the mock belief system which may have served our forefathers and rightly derided by Dawkins and co. It is somehting firt for this century.