Strange Life

“Ours is a strange life: beautiful, unique, loved, but also tough, unclear, and incomplete. This music is born of life and prayer, doubts and hopes, intermingled; the sense of God present and absent all at once, unfearful of our thoughts and questions, even when unorthodox. The songs of Strange Life celebrate human life and thought, allowing it challenge and stretch learnt answers towards new insights, in the knowledge that questions are as important as answers for those within and beyond the explicitly Christian fold. Because God guides our making sense of things. This CD precedes and complements a book to be published in 2021, called Suspended God: The Music of Doubtful Theology, on the value of questions and the possibility of doing theology through music. The aim of both the book and the CD is not to distrust God but to trust our instincts: to theologise in the trenches of life, and open spaces as only music can.”