Looking Across Faiths Islam Methodism Catholicism Anglicanism

If there's only one God then surely all Faiths must worship the same God?

Are those losing their lives at the Frontline of any response to humanitarian crises damned if they have no faith, or follow a different faith to mine?

Shouldn’t Faiths combine to combat Evil rather than debate differences?

These and other ques�ons launched this project to look again at my own faith and the faith of others, including those with no faith.

hese words taught directly by Jesus to his disciples and o�en used during Chris�an worship seemed to me to be consistent with Islam.

When I read them to a Muslim group leader he confirmed my hypothesis and actually thought I was reading from the Qu’ran.

Temple Church, London, 2023

I s�ll have this first Christmas present on my Dressing Table. The prety icon no doubt fascinated a young baby more than the words, but the really loving prayer has sustained me throughout my life.

I naturally trusted what my parents taught me but what if they had been Catholics or Muslims? The Islamic view is that we are all born with the nature to seek God but our parents nurture our beliefs to mirror their own.

Peter’s First Christmas Present, Weeley, 2023

All Abrahamic Faiths share the fact that we cannot see, touch, nor hear a God which we nonetheless come to know through scripture teaching , prayer, and some�mes by epiphany.

Whatever our Faith doubts, fears, and tempta�ons will test it. Adam and Eve had seen God, but disobeyed Him. Lot's wife had been told not to look back but was unable to resist. Peter started sinking when the wind caused him to doubt. The remedy is the same in each Faith – trus�ng God.

God's love is wai�ng ready and able to help and support us whatever our faith. My grandmother was a very devout Methodist.

When troubled she would let her hand drop by her side and wait un�l she felt God pick it up and hold it, which he invariably did.

Quay Church, Woodbridge, 2023 / Jubilee House, Cosham, 1992

We've all faced �mes of Darkness into which light has struggled to shine.

Step 2 of 12-step recovery programs is that a power greater than ourselves can restore us if we let it. I've been in rehab and seen for myself a higher power helping addicts even though they could not name their helper.

Whatever our Faith there are �mes when something just reminds us of God's presence, even when we have not been seeking it directly.

Brantham Pond, Suffolk, 2023

This statue of an actual Crusader is superimposed on a photograph of the sea over Trafalgar which he would have sailed over.

When I was a child, I thought they were Heroes. I even went to ‘Crusaders’ Bible classes as a teenager.

Now I see them as terrorists going overseas to kill those of another Faith.

Temple Church , Suffolk, 2023 / Trafalgar, Spain, 2022

A cross is shown superior to a crescent in the botom right-hand window. The crescent may be suppor�ng the cross but I doubt that was the intent. These windows may look old but were restored in 1956-7 a�er being guted by a WWII i ncendiary. What does that tell us of our culture then? And now?

Temple Church, London, 2023

How easy is it to believe in or recruit for a God who allowed Protestants to kill Catholics during the English Reforma�on because they would not rescind their faith?

Tyburn Convent, London, 2023