Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
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I grew up with a very religious background.
From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.
For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.
My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.