As Theresa May preaches freedom to proclaim faith in Christ, street preachers are convicted of a public order offence

Mar 1, 2017 by Jill

by Archbishop Cranmer:

“How refreshing to hear a Prime Minister talk about their Christian faith, and sound like they mean it,” writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph. He continues:

At a Downing Street reception for religious leaders on Tuesday, Theresa May said that people must feel able “to speak about their faith, and that absolutely includes their faith in Christ.”

“Faith in Christ?” I took an involuntary breath. Did you mean to say that Prime Minister? It sounds so, well, faithy.

She does mean it, and if Mrs May finds some way to put those words into action then it’ll do all of us good.

Well, not quite all of us (screeches the National Secular Society), but it would indeed do a lot of people a lot of good if the Prime Minister could find some way of putting her words into action, which politicians tend not to do when the going gets tough. In this case, it’s ‘s a pretty big ‘if’, not least because it would involve a bit of rowing back on equality and a bit of re-balancing of human rights: it would require a pretty strong assertion of ‘reasonable accommodation‘ for Christians once again to be free to speak publicly about their faith in Christ.

That is faith in the Christ of thorns and nails; not so much faith in the Christ of duvets and fluffy pink things. The Christ who came to bring a sword, to set sons against fathers and daughters against mothers, to separate the sheep from the goats, he’s not very palatable these days. But the rainbow Christ, the peaceful, all-inclusive, non-judgmental Teleletubby Christ, he’s cool. There was an array of ecclesiologies and christologies represented at the Prime Minister’s reception, and she welcomed them all:

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