I’ve recently returned from a fortnight’s holiday away with my family. I try very hard to switch off completely on holiday. The phone stays on silent, the emails can wait, and the news is kept to a minimum. But as I enjoyed the hot sunshine (I love a heatwave), four stories managed to intrude. Sadly, they all pointed in the same direction.
First, the King appears to have embraced the language of being the protector not of ‘the faith’, but of faiths in a multi-faith nation. Frankly, Christians shouldn’t be looking to Buckingham Palace to defend biblical Christianity in the first place. Much less, the wishy-washy Christianity of Anglicanism.
The church has survived far worse than constitutional tinkering, and it has never depended on the spiritual vitality of the Church of England to keep the gospel alive. Christ needs no earthly monarch to protect his kingdom. He is already King of kings.
Of course, we believe in religious liberty. Christians above all people should defend the right of others to worship according to conscience. But there is a world of difference between protecting freedom of religion and pretending that every religion is simply a different route up the same mountain. That isn’t tolerance; it’s theological mush.
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