How do we inhabit our personal faith and other vital Christian values, essentials and meanings (at least as I have come to understand them) in the context in the Post-Truth Trump world, reeling from the effects of tariffs and this week’s response to the security ‘leak’ where the world doesn’t know what to do about the death, the evisceration, of Truth?
Twenty-eight years ago in God’s Truth: Essays to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Honest to God, published in 1988 and edited by Eric James, John Bowden wrote “There is need for vision not only inside the churches but outside them. Vision and a concern actually to make some differences where there is a crying need for change. Honesty is quite manifestly not enough; more people are going to have to do some fighting.” The same concerns haunt me today.
