About Son of a Preacher Man
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Growing up in an Anglican minister’s household wasn’t easy. It was undoubtedly the cause of my troubled teenage rebellion. But looking back I realise that it was also because I never had my own lived experience of God. I often witnessed the Holy Spirit at work, but God never spoke to me inside my father’s church walls.
Despite the rebellion I really admired my parents. As community figureheads they actively opposed South Africa’s racist regime, often at the risk of their own safety. Apartheid undoubtedly made my childhood both confusing and harrowing, but these things also instilled in me from early on an appreciation for the power of the human spirit.
It was long after leaving my homeland that I got to meet God, through a now decade-long daily meditation practice. As it’s prone to do, meditation found me at just the right time and in many ways saved my life. But it became more than just a coping mechanism. It unlocked the door to an entirely new way of living, and gifted the answers to all of our most pressing existential questions.
Set in three parts, Son of a Preacher Man is the story about how I came to find my voice; the stories of three amazing individuals who helped to shape my beliefs and gave me the courage to share it; and my message to the world - that we all have the same power to live joyful lives and in doing so find our purpose. And that we all seek this same simple truth.
