Thanks for visiting! My name is Matt Finn, I’m 24 and am a student living in Durham, England.
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What is an undercover theologian?
This was a phrase I coined to allude to the fact that although I’m a (now third year) geography student everything I do is theological. This means that the outstandingly good news about Jesus has implications for all of life and this includes my geography degree. This comes out through my essays, my conversations and in many other ways – like this blog. The point for me is not to stay under the covers as a ’secret Christian’ but to, in many different personal and less personal ways, confess the reasons for the hope that I have.
If you’d like to know more about this you might like to read my very first post which set out some of my thinking. It was titled, “Everyone is a theologian and I’m no exception“.
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A bit more about me
I always find it interesting to know a bit more about the people I read, what their influences have been and so on. So, just in case you too are interested in these kinds of things here is some stuff about me…
I grew up near Wimbledon (of wombles and tennis fame) and was part of Queen’s Road Church (part of newfrontiers) which was where I became a Christian. I moved to Oxford when I was 18 to be a Physics student but things didn’t work out quite how I expected (though God knew what He was doing!) when I failed one of my first year exams and the resit and had to leave my course. I returned to Oxford to work part-time for Oxford City Council and on an informal year team programme with Oxford Community Church (part of Salt and Light) working amongst students. I stayed on to do a two year internship with the church working with students, teaching part-time at The King’s School, administrating Oxfordshire Community Churches’ ‘Area Education Team‘ and doing a theology diploma with King’s Bible College and Training Centre. It was a busy but rich time! I’m now a student again (this time of Geography) in Durham, where I am part of King’s Church, Durham.
