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JD Vance, Rory Stewart and the order of love

JD Vance, Rory Stewart and the order of love

Paul Huxley
Paul Huxley

In the blue corner, once-Conservative MP, now-podcaster Rory Stewart. In the red corner, the Vice President of the United States of America, JD Vance. The topic: a Christian doctrine from the fifth century?

Welcome to 2025, everyone. But could a surreal exchange on X (formerly Twitter) help us better understand God’s calling for our lives and our nation?

Is the Christian view of sexuality anti-love?

Is the Christian view of sexuality anti-love?

Sam Allberry

We know so much about love that we don’t realise how much we don’t know about it. We know it matters. We know we can’t live without it. This is so intuitive we don’t stop to think about why it is so obviously the case. It just is.

Whatever our worldview or politics or belief system or cultural background, we all know that life is, in some sense, about love. It is what makes life work. We sense that without love, everything else loses much of its point and purpose.