About us
Our mission is to help people in their journeys of faith and understanding by connecting them with the richness and wisdom of the Christian tradition.
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The FaithWave app launched in the Summer of 2024.
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We think technology can be a valuable, life-enhancing resource, and we are committed to helping people to interact with it in that way.
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We firmly believe that the online and offline worlds can and should complement one another. Our aim is to make offline resources and communities more accessible and enjoyable through digital means, and we certainly don't seek to replace them.
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We profess the Nicene Creed as our statement of faith. We believe in learning from thinkers from across the Christian tradition and aim to recognise their deep agreement while acknowledging the points on which they differ.
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We want to build a platform for Christians that is welcoming to anyone interested in Christian thinking.
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Our upcoming priorities are to optimise current features and add new ones, continuously improving FaithWave to better support our users.
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The project must be sustainable and able to grow if it is to be a success. At the same time, no one should be prevented from joining by their financial circumstances. Anyone who wants to join but truly cannot afford the cost should get in touch so we can arrange a membership for them.
Personal Message
I have been fortunate enough to have had some wonderful teachers. The best of them have opened up new ways of seeing, whole new worlds, often through teaching on a great work of literature. Many of these texts, including some which have been most vital to me, I would not have read without their prompting.
It is scarcely credible that I, as a loutish seventeen-year-old, would have read through the synoptic Gospels with minute attention to detail, pausing to contemplate the different views of a variety of scholars. And yet just this, in one of those classrooms that is always slightly too warm, remains one of the most valuable things I have done. Simply seeing on my shelf the red NRSV Bible we used can summon the hot and happy atmosphere of that room.
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I believe it is important to continue learning throughout life, even if it is not always easy once you have left formal education behind. My own faith journey has sometimes followed a tangled course, but the writing of Christian authors has been of unceasing value. Writers like Soren Kierkegaard, Herbert McCabe, C.S. Lewis, Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Athanasius have helped me to think better, increase in sensitivity, and to read scripture and pray more often and more fruitfully.
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This is, in fact, common. Many people we speak to have had similar experiences and recognise their value, but do not—myself included—engage with the best of Christian thought and writing as much as they would like. FaithWave was founded in the hope of solving our problem.