About me

My real name isn't Sven, it's Steven. I accquired the nickname 'Sven' due to the fact that my old housemate thought that since I'd grown up in Germany, I ought to be called 'Sven' instead of 'Steven'. As everyone knows, Sven is a Swedish name and not a German one, but it's stuck. I'm from Yorkshire originally, but I grew up in Germany, where my family still live.

I'm 24, I live in Manchester, and I've just finished a degree in Theology and Biblical Studies. I have two cockatiels and a budgie, and a wonderful girlfriend called Bryony. Apart from studying and learning about theology, I like cricket, football (Barnsley FC all the way), gardening, and fiddling around on the internet.

Theologically, I have a background in happy-clappy charismatic circles though last year after lots of reflection I realised that that particular stream of Christianity wasn't for me, and I now attend a wonderful pomo-evangelical church in Longsight, Manchester. I don't have much time for rampaging fundamentalists, hyper-Calvinists, or people who have never bothered to think their faith through in any way. My favourite theologians are Karl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, and Jose Comblin, and on the biblical side I'm a big fan of N T Wright, James Dunn, Richard Bauckham, and Richard Hays. I think Roman Catholics are still Christians, that the Emergents are not pure evil, and that the scriptures still have a lot to teach us.

My ambitions are to continue studying the New Testament at postgraduate level, run a marathon, and own lots of books.