The church’s services as chaplain to this democracy are no longer required. You’ve been given your P45; your severance pay is in the mail.

This is roughly what Walter Brueggemann said to a Presbyterian audience in America.* It is perhaps how the church in the UK feels when we hear, for example, that it is unlawful for prayers to be included on the agenda of council meetings. (more…)

On Tuesday 9 June, Mike Wardlow posed the question “Does the Christian church have anything distinctive to bring to current local education debates and institutions?”

The audio from his talk has been synchronised with the slides he used that evening.