Go back just under ten years and people were gradually beginning to raise concerns about the emergence of antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn. A number of Jewish MPs began to talk about their negative experience of what they considered to be racist and bullying behaviour. A number of defences were mounted at… Continue reading Zac Polanski, The Green Party and antisemitism
Tag: Political Theology
Can Christians be interested in geopolitics as well as the Gospel? Responding to Paul Blackham’s Evangelicals Now article
Paul Blackham writes in May’s Evangelicals Now: “What do we fear enough to talk to strangers about? Our spiritual mandate is to Seek FIRST God’s Kingdom. We must be obsessed with the business of heaven – because only then will the business of earth fall into the right perspective.”[1] I agree whole heartedly with this… Continue reading Can Christians be interested in geopolitics as well as the Gospel? Responding to Paul Blackham’s Evangelicals Now article
America in mourning, 911 and Charlie Kirk
Twenty four years ago today, we followed the news as shocking events unfolded in the US. I remember the shock as we first heard rumours of a plane hitting one of the World Trade Centre towers and imagined a small microlight only to watch as though in slow motion airliners crashing into the towers. It… Continue reading America in mourning, 911 and Charlie Kirk
One step forward, two steps back: Keir Starmer’s proposals on immigration
Keir Starmer has made a significant contribution to the debate on immigration and introduced the government’s proposals for reducing net migration. He has insisted that implementing a cap on migration is unhelpful, I agree with him on that. He is quoted as warning that we risk “becoming a nation of strangers” without tighter rules and… Continue reading One step forward, two steps back: Keir Starmer’s proposals on immigration
Is home schooling default?
When I was at theological college, a few people seemed to have got really caught up in something that I found a little bewildering and surprising. They had decided that they should either home school their children or send them to a Christian school. You also got the sense that this was not a personal… Continue reading Is home schooling default?
If Donald Trump has called the most important issue facing the World wrongly then where does that leave his Evangelical supporters?
Donald Trump seems committed to a “peace plan” for Ukraine which essentially involves Russia getting to keep much of the territory Putin’s aggression since 2014 has acquired, including Crimea. Charles Moore writes helpfully here about how this proposal compares and is in fact worse than the appeasement deal that Neville Chamberlain signed with Hitler at… Continue reading If Donald Trump has called the most important issue facing the World wrongly then where does that leave his Evangelical supporters?
Why we need a robust political theology in response to assisted dying
The Assisted Dying Bill has completed its committee stage which means that it should soon have its third and final reading in the House of Commons before moving to the House of Lords. There have been various reports on the bill’s committee stage in both the secular and Christian media. This has tended to focus… Continue reading Why we need a robust political theology in response to assisted dying
Do we need a political theology?
In my article responding to Joel Knight about his EN article on Donald Trump, I observed that he had raised the issue of Political Theology. I suggested that this was something worth enlarging on. My concern was that there were a number of potential ways to take the statement, some more helpful than others. Political… Continue reading Do we need a political theology?
Speaking Scripture to Power: Why we need a robust Evangelical Political Theology (by Joel Knight)
This is a guest post by Joel Knight in response to an article I wrote engaging with his take on Donald Trump in Evangelicals Now. Joel is minister at Christ Church Wokingham Dave asks me what I mean by ‘political theology’ and I’ll begin here because I think it will illuminate the question about ethical… Continue reading Speaking Scripture to Power: Why we need a robust Evangelical Political Theology (by Joel Knight)
How should we respond to Donald Trump?
Joel Knight, writes for Evangelicals Now about President Trump and UK Evangelical response that: “Much of the response to Donald Trump’s presidency from Christians in the UK has centred on ethical assessment. Christians rightly recognise that character matters and have a concern for the disadvantaged and disenfranchised. Moral clarity is indeed a gift Christians can… Continue reading How should we respond to Donald Trump?
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