Photography Mike Kear
My spiritual journey, beyond a deep connection to nature, has been through various valleys and mountain tops, including many searches within Christianity. Church of England Christianity in my school years was followed by Christian spirituality in my late teens, and at unfiversity I found evangelical Christianity.
This journey culminated in a yearlong 12-step programme to “cure” my homosexuality which had the opposite of the intended effect: rather than turning me strafight, it helped me clarify that my sexuality was not something that society or religion could dictate to me — despite the American leader at the final retreat telling me that I was playing with ire and would go to hell for reaching this conclusion.