Roots and fruits
Honouring Jesus and our nation – we can strike the right balance
Brexit. More than three years of debate and discord and the trouble may only just be starting. It seems like the parliamentary logjam following the referendum has now brought the UK into a period of constitutional crisis.
Biologically, a constitution refers to the physical health and strength of a body. Similarly, a political constitution embodies the fundamental principles for government, and expresses the...
Historically, this framework for our state has proven to be a relatively successful formula, and its success has been largely attributed to its Christian foundations. This goes some way to...
However, after a century of slow secularisation, the UK is experiencing what the former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has described as “cultural climate change” – a wholesale shift away from...
This is because it all works well when you have a common spiritual rule book to guide politics, government and the law, and to temper the language of public debate. In the absence of such a...
