What Quirks have you picked up from your evangelical past?
This could be expanded include youthwork in general, and other traditions, but evangelicalism is the context in which I forged my identity.
There was a bizarre mix of creativity, genuine love, but also fear, repression and doom. But that is not the purpose of this post! Please comment with the quirks you picked up (look for the button at the top of the page).
What things remained with you, what things still remain?
Inspired by stories of evangelists I practiced a lifestyle ready to be called to a land without the comforts of Glasgow. I got comfortable with sleeping on the floor. I shave in cold water with a trad “safety razor”. Encouraged “Not to conform” I chose a wardrobe that was as logo free as I could go without being too fussy. Any colour as long as it accepted all others (which as I am at heart a physicist means black). I was supported by my family to volunteer at youth camps every summer, which I value greatly – but a quirk I have developed is a deep suspicion of people doing things to earn or generate personal wealth.
But what quirks have you inherited?
- Are there ones do you value, but have left behind?
- Are some core to your being?
- Would you hope to pass any on?
