After The Church

This is a moving account of Claire's journey from the tyranny of a received doctrine to an authentic personal understanding of her own Christian life. Both her parents started that journey by leaving the Roman Catholic Church. What they started as an external path towards the truth, their daughter has completed through an internal re-creation of herself from her own depths. This passage from a received creed to a meaningful inner faith is what the present age is demanding of Christian believers. This account will be a help to others who are engaged in the same struggle. --Neville Symington

'Beautifully written and bravely told, Claire Henderson Davis' story places a powerful challenge before the Christian Church.' Richard Holloway --Richard Holloway

Poet Patrick Kavanagh wrote God must be allowed to surprise us. Claire Henderson Davis offers us an amazing blend of personal biography, accumulated experience, depth psychology and contemporary interpretation to jolt us into fresh understandings of such images and concepts as The Fall, Babel, The Good Samaritan or The Incarnation that point beyond both crass consumerism and idolised identities to suggest a constantly surprising, open, forgiving story of human relationships. --Micheal O Siadhail

'Beautifully written and bravely told, Claire Henderson Davis' story places a powerful challenge before the Christian Church.' Richard Holloway --Richard Holloway

Poet Patrick Kavanagh wrote God must be allowed to surprise us. Claire Henderson Davis offers us an amazing blend of personal biography, accumulated experience, depth psychology and contemporary interpretation to jolt us into fresh understandings of such images and concepts as The Fall, Babel, The Good Samaritan or The Incarnation that point beyond both crass consumerism and idolised identities to suggest a constantly surprising, open, forgiving story of human relationships. --Micheal O Siadhail

Claire Henderson Davis is a theologian, dance artist and writer, and Director of PublicWork Ltd, a company working to renew liturgy as public work through an engagement with contemporary art forms, a political commitment to public space and a shared vision of the common good (www.publicwork.co.uk).