Tag: Public Theology

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)

Is one US party demonic and the other merely non-Christian?

This is likely to be the final part of my engagement with Robert Gagnon and this is where we turn our attention to the specific question.*  Can and should we regard the present Democratic Party in the United States as demonic whilst the Republicans are merely non-Christian? It is important at this point to be… Continue reading Is one US party demonic and the other merely non-Christian?

The future of the centre right

At the General Election, the Conservatives were reduced to a rump of 121 out of 650 MPs.  If we consider Reform, or at least their voters as belonging to the centre-right too, then we are still only looking at 126 seats.  However, that’s one part of the story.  Whilst barely 24% of the electorate voted… Continue reading The future of the centre right