An ex-Atheist revert to Christianity, and convert from dissenting liberalism to Catholic Orthodoxy. I am a sinner, redeemed by Christ but still being redeemed – I am graciously saved (Romans 8:24, Ephesians 2:5–8), being saved (1 Corinthians 1:8, 2 Corinthians 2:15, Phillippians 2:12), and have the hope that I will be saved (Romans 5:9–10, 1 Corinthians 3:12–15) by the mercy and Grace of God. I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phillippians 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Romans 5:2, 2 Timothy 2:11–13), looking to the final Θεωσις: perfect union with my Lord and my God (2 Peter 1:4). All that I have I don’t deserve, and I hope to use all that I am (such as it is) for His greater glory, now and forever.

A Home Counties bourgeois bibliophile philopolemicist with old Colonial ancestry, who aims for that wrily knowing sense of irony, stoically insouciant indefatigability, under-stated sophistication, and strong yet sensitive chivalry that marks a