Is an armistice needed for divided nations and churches?
by Colin Blakely, Christian Today:
This weekend churches up and down the country will mark the centenary of the Armistice that brought peace after the Great War. However, that peace was to be sadly short-lived as the 20th century proved to be one of the bloodiest in history.
Two decades later war was to break out again, leading to the demise of fascism in 1945. This was then followed four decades later by the fall of the Berlin Wall, with which we arguably saw the demise of Communism. What followed was perhaps an uneasy peace but a rise in the liberal consensus. Was this a ‘via media’ in world politics?
If this was a Golden Era, it has faded somewhat in recent years. In its place we have witnessed the rise in populism and nationalism, not least across Europe but wider afield too.
This in turn has led to a rise in division, and resulted in Nancy Pelosi declaring after the recent US midterm elections that her party was ‘seeking solutions that will bring us together’ because ‘we have all had enough of divisions’.
But perhaps the first of those divisions that have to be dealt with is the religious divide.
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