Month: September 2022

I met for coffee and cake with my friend Hugh Valentine, in a café in Soho, during the summer, and we found ourselves talking about the idea of ‘feral’ which is something that intrigues us both. Almost before we knew it we had decided to set up a website to explore feral spirituality. It’s now up and running at: http://feralspirituality.uk

Please visit it, as we’d welcome your thoughts, comments and possibly contributions. Do share it with anybody whom you feel might find it interesting or helpful.

I have never found the idea of Jesus’s death being a sacrifice a meaningful one.  Quite the contrary.  What sort of God needs to sacrifice his child in order to be at peace with what He has created?  That sounds barbaric to me.  I can understand why the first Jewish Christians understood Jesus death in those terms. They knew that His death, and more especially God’s raising Him from the dead, changed everything; they knew that it happened when lambs were being sacrificed in the Temple; they had been taught that God needed to be propitiated regularly for their sins, and that offering sacrifices was the means to do that. It must have been natural to them to think of Jesus’s death as the sacrifice that had changed everything.