I recently responded to Rhys Laverty’s article in Evangelicals Now which suggested that perhaps the UK was becoming ungovernable. This kind of narrative is becoming more common place. Indeed the more excitable among our Christian Nationalist friends have been talking up the prospect of civil war.
I have two main concerns with the narrative. First, it seems to align with a second narrative of discontent, one in which immigrants, the poor and the elderly, basically the more vulnerable ard blamed and scapegoated for the ills our nation faces.
Secondly, when it is suggested that the nation is deeply divided, this overlooks as we saw last time that politics by its nature is about debate and disagreement. There’s more than one way to face the challenges that our nation does. I hope we are not moving away from a situation where difference can be tolerated.
Furthermore, if nations where there are strong and different views are ungovernable, what are the implications for the Church. Am I welcome in a local church of others don’t share my theological or political outlook.
Surely our unity in Christ can trump those differences. I can have friends with different political views than mine.
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