Christ is risen! What amazing news. How easily Christians get used to the idea that a man came back from the dead; how easily that idea becomes just a bit of cultural background noise, rather than a shocking, incredible claim. Knowing that Jesus was resurrected transforms our understanding of the nature of the universe we live in – not just a closed mechanical system of cause-and-effect, but a place of miracles, where the spiritual is a reality and where God breaks into the warp and woof of history in the form of a man. Now that’s something worth celebrating and boggling at!
Since I last blogged, I fought and lost an election campaign, went to the Iona Community‘s student week with a group from Cardiff University Chaplaincy, and have returned to my home town of Dolgellau in North Wales. These first few months of 2007 have been absolutely mad, and I’ve been loving it, as much because of as despite the hecticness of it all! I’m really grateful to have been able to do so much exciting stuff. I now need to knuckle down to finishing my degree, and have the adventure of moving from university into the world of work to look forward to. And I don’t say that with any irony – although I’ll be sorry to leave student life, I also look forward to the new challenges and new adventures of life after university.
As for this blog, I’ve started typing up my journal of the trip to China, so hopefully I’ll start unfolding the talk of the adventures of Team Greg in that far away land in the next few days. There was an interesting article in The Times recently asking “where have all the intelligent Christians gone?” which I’ll probably comment on, since I’ve already written them a letter about it, and if I find time I’ll comment on the new series of Doctor Who!