Struggling for Good against Evil

Abstract

This charts my quest for ‘good’, and my struggle for ‘good’ against ‘evil’, growing up in an evangelical tradition. In the process I particularly distinguish the category of ‘evil’ from the categories of ‘bad’ and ‘sin’ and reflect on some of the dominant manifestations of this ‘evil’ during the century in which I grew up. I specifically explore what it has meant for me, in my personal struggle for ‘good’ against ‘evil’, to deal in ever expanding concentric circles of concern, with the ‘evil in ourselves’ the ‘evil in our communities’, the ‘evil in our institutions’, the ‘evil in our nations’ and the ‘evil in our religions’. And the struggle goes on….