Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is the newly ordained Revd. Danny Pegg. Danny shares with us how when he was at University, where he studied Religious Studies and Comparative Literature, he had no faith and theology was, at the time, something of an academic passion. We learn how a sudden experience led Danny towards a belief in God. Danny uses the analogy of fandom and refers to a ‘lightning bolt moment’ to explain his experience. Danny talks about his family background and how in the school he went to, where he was one of only three white pupils in the class, he was surrounded by religion – but the religions he learned about were Jainism and Judaism rather than Christianity. Danny discusses how for him faith is exotic and how, even when he was a student and was used to being around students who were mainly agnostic, the ‘numinous’ is something that he encountered at Canterbury Cathedral. Danny was born in 1989 during the heyday of pop and he grew up at a time when the Spice Girls were everywhere. We learn how his