What this project is

Veritas is a long-form re-examination of the character of God as presented in the Bible. It begins with a simple question: does the picture of God that most people carry — including most people who have spent their whole lives in church — actually reflect what the text says?

The evidence suggests it often does not. Centuries of inherited interpretation, selective reading, and theological tradition have layered onto the biblical record a version of God that is, at points, unrecognisable when you sit down and read carefully. Veritas is an attempt to strip those layers back.

How it works

The spine of the project is a book-by-book study of all 66 books of the Bible. Each book is approached with the same question: what does this actually reveal about who God is? Not what preachers have said about it. Not what a favourite theologian concluded. What does the text, read in its historical and literary context, actually show?

That study forms the foundation. From it flow essays on specific themes, written for anyone who wants to engage without reading the whole thing. Books offer a more sustained treatment. Videos and events make the material available in other forms.

The method

The Bible is treated as a single, developing story. Earlier parts are read in the light of later ones. Difficult passages are not smoothed over but worked through. The clearest revelation of who God is — the person of Jesus — serves as the interpretive anchor. Where something in the Old Testament seems to clash with that picture, the question is asked: what is actually going on here?

This is not a project driven by scepticism. It takes the text seriously. It is driven by the conviction that the actual God of the Bible is more compelling, more surprising, and more worth knowing than the diminished version that passes for orthodoxy in many quarters.

The name

Veritas — truth. Not as a claim to have arrived at it, but as a direction of travel.