A Christian Renaissance

 The new UK Parliament is the first to have a majority of non-Christians.  The incoming Trump regime in America has separated the god of profit from the God of Jesus Christ. However, an interview in the Roman Catholc weekly The Tablet (12 October) with Rupert Shortt, the  former agnostic and biographer of Rowan Williams and Benedict 16, and the author of The Eclipse of Christianity, gives us hope of a renaissance of the Christian Vision.

He says 'The Christian vision of reality makes sense. It is a rich one. It deserves to be taken more seriously. I feel that the opinion-forming class in this country (UK) by and large don't 'get' belief in God in general and in Christianity in particular.

Christianity is on an upward trajectory in Africa and Asia.  Among those predicting the decline of atheism and an extraordinary renaissanxw of religious faith globally is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Muslim who sat in the Dutch Parliament and became a Christian.  She describes Chrisianity as 'the new punk'.

Rupert Shortt has  argued with Richaard Dawkins, author of 'The God Delusion', whom, Shortt claims, 'has this frock-coated Victorian idea of matter as containing no more than meaningless bits of stuff, whereas now it is precisely hard-nosed physicists and psychologists, whether at quantum level or the level of the cell, who are using words like 'relationship synergy'.

We are all inter-connected. The cosmos has Christ at its heart - the question is - do we have Christ at our heart?