Who writes this stuff?
My name’s Ed. I’m 21 years old. I study Modern Languages (French, German, though I’m finished with that now, and Spanish) at Durham University in the freezing north of England. Right at the moment I’m on the compulsary abroad part of my course, and I live in central Brussels, Belgium, where I study the Bible.
In my spare time I like reading, history and wildlife documentaries. As far as music goes I like choral music, Bach, Handel as well as anything that gets my toes tapping or my heart throbbing. I love watching rugby and, when I have the time, cricket and should probably take up some kind of sport as well.
I don’t come from a Christian background and went from atheism as a child to calling myself a Christian but worshipping something which, on closer inspection, closer resembles Santa Claus than the God of the Bible. Aged 16 I realised that if God was perfectly just and couldn’t just ignore good and evil in the way he ran the world then I was in big trouble. Through a stroke of amazing luck which shows the love and kindness of God I stumbled across and read this book, written by an overweight Victorian minister who died over 97 years before I was born. It was then that I understood that God had provided a way out for people who realise they deserve nothing except his punishment by sending his son to die for anyone who trusts in him. Half thinking it was too good to be true, I asked Jesus if he’d rescue one more ungodly man. Life’s never been quite the same since.
