I am Christopher Aqurette, a Swedish freelance writer and philosopher of religion with a bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from Lund University. My chief interests in academia include theories of truth and God’s existence, contemporary Jewish philosophy, the interaction between religion and politics, and the treatment of homosexuality in religious ethics.
I was born in May 1972 at Höllviken, a coastal community in southernmost Sweden. After many years abroad, I now live with my husband in Malmö, a port not far from my birthplace, situated on the Sound opposite Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen.
Although I no longer take an active part in the company, I am a proud founding shareholder of QX Publishing, the publisher of Scandinavia’s leading gay magazine and the host of the largest online community for queer people in the Nordic region.
My Hebrew name is אבנר and I am an adherent of Progressive Judaism. I am also an advocate of libertarianism who believes that the powers of the state must be strictly limited to allow people maximum liberty and the lives they choose for themselves. In my opinion, civil liberties should be important to everybody, but they ought to be particularly important to members of a minority group that risk being subjected to arbitrary legislation.
Aqurette.com is my personal journal of arts and politics. In the journal, I focus on alternative news and mix hyperlinks to the relevant articles with libertarian commentary. I often report on Swedish events and the latest news from the Jewish world and the gay community. In short, the journal is primarily about my own interests and opinions.
