by Jamie Bambrick on X
The UK is not just a political mess, but a spiritual one. Our government is aggressively secular. Islam has grown rapidly and become so radical that the UAE has restricted students from studying here for fear of Muslim Brotherhood recruitment. The Church of England has embraced same-sex marriage and, in Sarah Mullally, has ordained arguably the most liberal Archbishop of Canterbury in history. Christians are being arrested for silent prayer and street preaching . Babies can now be terminated in the womb up until birth and euthanasia permitted by a parliamentary majority.
Given this, it seems odd that British Christian leaders are launching a Jürgen Klopp-style all-out gegenpress against any attempt to retrieve the historic Christian value system that built this nation.
Gavin Calver, CEO of the ostensibly conservative Evangelical Alliance, strangely united with pro-LGBT ‘Christians’ like Steve Chalke and Dr Sam Wells to condemn Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom rally. Recently EA’s UK Director, Peter Lynas, publicly fretted that there are many young men coming to faith in this ‘Quiet Revival’ who may bring their conservative notions into the church. And Danny Webster, their Director of Advocacy, released a recent piece at Premier, the UK’s leading Christian magazine, entitled ‘What Is Wrong With Christian Nationalism?’ which seemed to be yet another move to quash any attempt at recovering a serious Christian framework for national life — or, more precisely, to prevent the church becoming a home for the kind of people now drifting back towards it.
The latter of these in particular is replete with the sort of category errors that have both become fashionable in polite evangelical circles, and rendered the church impotent in the current cultural fracas.