Our culture is gradually shifting from apathy towards the Christian faith into hostility.
In various ways we can see evidence of Christians being deliberately excluded from the public square. Take for example, our nation’s publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC. The BBC broadcasts plenty of material on religious themes, but very little of it has been positive about the Christian perspective.
In 2006 the Muslim journalist, Rageh Omaar, was chosen to present a three part BBC series on the miracles of Jesus. In 2011 the BBC broadcast a prime time series on the archaeology of the Bible, fronted by an atheist-feminist scholar from Exeter University. In 2013 on Good Friday at noon the BBC chose to broadcast a documentary by Melvyn Bragg in which the claim was presented that Jesus had married Mary Magdalene.
Comedy, free speech and warnings from the past
Hannah Arendt was a Jewish philosopher who grew up in Nazi Germany. Eventually she had to flee to France and, …