Introduction

The background story of this book began 45 years ago, when I stepped forward at a Christian youth camp in Sydney, Australia, and accepted the evangelist’s urging to make Jesus the Lord of my life. The subsequent shaping and reshaping of my evangelical Christian identity within a particular context of power led to many identity stories being told and retold throughout my life, until in fact such stories began to change. Over many years, I revised, refashioned and re-formed those stories, discarded my evangelical identity and developed a new sense of who I am.