To read Revelation for meaning today we need to recognize and accept that the Christian community itself has often become the wearer of Babylon's Cap of oppression. This is a reading of Revelation that seeks to hear the voices of postcolonial pain, while never pretending to be a postcolonial analysis.

Michael Godfrey is an Anglican Priest who has worked in rural and remote, suburban and inner-urban Australia and New Zealand. He holds a PhD in New Testament from Australian Catholic University, an MA in Literature from Massey University, and a BD from the Melbourne College of Divinity. Godfrey is the author of Entertaining Angels and Babylon's Cap. He was dismissed as Dean of Waiapu, but fought the dismissal, which was overturned by an appellate tribunal. He opted not to return to ministry, preferring to concentrate on writing and further studies. He is a member of the Mori Congregation of Te Pou Herenga Waka o te Whakapono, preaching and leading worship when invited.