Escape from Reason
Fifty years ago the great Christian thinker Francis Schaeffer wrote Escape from Reason.
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‘Why don’t you campaign on…?’
We’re occasionally asked why we don’t campaign on such and such a topic – most frequently poverty and the environment.
Oppression and Toleration: Charles II and William of Orange
By 1660, the British people were crying out for a king. Most had never fully taken to the Cromwellian vision of a republic. A return to a monarchy was inevitable, but not without opposition.
MPs caused this gambling crisis. Now they must tackle it
This article first appeared on The Conservative Woman
The Puritans: Among God’s Giants
Revd Dr Richard Turnbull opened The Christian Institute’s fourth Autumn Lecture challenging the idea of the Puritans as “straight-laced bigots”. Instead, he argued, they were people attracted to a vision of Jesus Christ in a way we need to learn from today.
On This Day: Anniversary of Isaac Watts’ death
On 25 November 1748, the father of English hymnwriting, Isaac Watts, died at the age of 74.