Bible’s authority and relevance. I went through a process of assessing how much latitude Christian belief can, and should, reasonably tolerate. I was fortunate in that the groups with whom I joined generally had theologically orthodox but not anti-intellectual views. I won a postgraduate fellowship to do physics doctoral studies in Australia. But because of some timing issues there was a few-monthslong gap after I finished at Cambridge. I volunteered to spend it as a resident assistant in a hostel