Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Taylor Weaver. Originally from Texas, Taylor came to Canterbury in 2014 in order to undertake a PhD in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kent. We learn why Taylor sought from early in his life to conceal his Texan accent and Taylor talks about the culture shock of coming to the UK. Taylor’s parents divorced when he was in kindergarten and he lived with his father who worked in a power plant as an engineer. He talks about the traits he inherited and shares some memories of getting into a fight when young and why he once claimed that the Devil told him to drop a boulder on his brother’s head. We also learn why, as an American living in the South, it was never possible to escape religion. We then move on to talk about whether there is a confessional dimension to his studies and Taylor speaks about how he isn’t representative of most Baptists due to his liberal world view. He refers to the paradox of being radicalized by leftist intellectuals and how it has shape