The second bone of contention in the much abused skeleton of Evangelical thought is creation. Dickinson and Buckeridge (for the background see What evangelicals fight about: atonement) list the options: ‘Three main opposing views with hot and sometimes harsh debate between supporters of six-day creationism, intelligent design and theistic evolution.’ To be honest, I am rather uninformed about this whole issue, and what I have to say will probably seem naïve and misguided. But I think that there are options available to us in a postmodern framework which, if we could just extract ourselves from beneath the suffocating weight of the interminable modern debate, could prove re-invigorating for the missional work of the church.

I don’t want to see evidence of my wife. I want to find out more about her. Even if she were out when I came home, I might find some dry dishes waiting to be put away, or some clean washing all over the chairs in the living room! These things might tell you something about her personality, though may be less than ‘evidence’ that any particular person lives with me. They are like the glow in our house after she has passed through it.

I don’t see how we can live in the world with God without seeing a similar glow.