From the Editor
Rev Peter Maher
Conversion and the Plenary Council
Christos Tsiolkas’ latest book, Damascus, reviewed by Michael Elligate in the current edition of The Swag, is not for the faint-hearted – it is brutal and messy – filled with all the challenges of humanity and revelation in the churches of St Paul. It is a work of the imagination. Tsiolkas says he was scarred and angered by Paul’s writings in the Orthodox scripture group at the age of 15. He found the interpretation of the text in that group made him afraid and hate himself as a boy who identified as gay.
