Rev Mitch Forbes

Mitch has had a long and storied career as a Baptist minister. He has worked in relatively conservative churches and more ‘middle of the road’ churches. He has worked for the Baptist theological college and was an itinerate speaker for a bit. As someone who is naturally inquisitive and someone who has changed his mind on a bunch of things, Mitch is never scared to ask difficult questions of the Christian tradition and sit uncomfortably with ambiguity and uncertainty. He often finds himself feeling like the more he learns the more he realises how much more there is to learn about life, faith, God and what it is to be human.

Alongside all that, he remains convinced that Christianity and the gospel of Jesus is beautiful in its simplicity and its intellectual complexity. He believes that Christians should always value and encourage uncertainty, humility and questions as well as faith, hope and love. More than that, for Mitch, faith and hope are built out of the building blocks of uncertainty and deep questioning. Mitch believes that, at its best, Christian faith is more about honesty, authenticity, doubt, faith, love, generosity, kindness, grace and creativity than it is about having neat answers to theological questions.

Mitch is married to Kristen and has 3 beautiful kids, Harper, Lara and Leo. He loves reading, listening to lectures and podcasts, audio books and music, and is up for a chat about pretty much anything.