Trust

‘Safe as houses’ they used to say. But that was in days when ‘It’s in the bank’ was still a statement of confidence. House prices have dived and banks have gone bust. It’s not a happy picture. ‘Safe as houses’ they used to say. But that was in days when ‘It’s in the bank’ was still a statement of confidence. House prices have dived and banks have gone bust. It’s not a happy picture.

Now, on top of these economic woes, we have had political turmoil, sparked off by a scandal over MPs’ expenses. At a time when most of the population are anxious about their jobs or worried about their savings and pensions, our leaders have been indulging in ‘expenses padding’ and ‘flipping’ second homes to avoid tax.

Our article this month — ‘Trust’ is July’s front page article. This reflects upon the loss of trust in human leadership and institutions in the wake of the expenses scandal engulfing the House of Commons; ‘It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes’. On this the quincentenary of Calvin’s birth, the July issue also carries major feature articles by Joel Beeke, John Blanchard and Michael Haykin, celebrating the Christian church’s enormous debt to the ministry of John Calvin.

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