By the time of our next Chapter letter, Britain will have voted and be in the process of discovering the shape of our newly constituted government, so it feels important to take a moment to reflect on the place of faith in politics (or politics in faith), and how we as a Christian community engage in the public life of our society.
“Religion and politics shouldn’t mix” is a familiar trope, and yet when we look to the life of Jesus, we see him consistently standing up to unjust power and speaking out for the poor and dispossessed, so much so that he died a political death…
