The world needs peace-makers. Jesus placed them among His Beatitudes: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Matthew 5:9 There are too many peace-breakers. This blogpost is about international affairs and conflict resolution, and God knows that we need it. There will be no lasting peace between man and …
Category: Politics
Governments and criminal behaviour
Media commentators frequently confess that they do not know why Governments act as they do in particular circumstances. For example, the US President Joe Biden has authorised cluster bombs for the war in Ukraine, which kill civilians and children and are condemned by 123 countries including the UK. So why did he do so? In …
Bullies and cowards
Bullies and cowards have something in common – they cannot win an argument. Poor debate is very common but poor arguments are just as common. So what do people do when they have a poor argument? They browbeat their opponent, they ridicule them, they miscall them, they prejudice the impressionable against them, they cancel them, …
Nationalism and patriotism
Patriotism is about people, their heritage and the culture of a nation, whereas nationalism is ultimately about land and borders rather than the people within these borders. This is why nationalistic leaders were happy to needlessly sacrifice the lives of thousands, if not millions, for “the fatherland” or motherland. This is not a Christian sentiment. …
Morality or Christianity?
The Christian Party does not campaign for morality but for Christian principles and values being articulated in public life. Secular conversion Many secular campaigning groups, ever since homosexuality was legalised in Britain in the 1960s, complain that they do not want to be merely tolerated but to be positively affirmed. They consider toleration to be …
Talents or vision?
The newly-elected leader of the SNP, Humza Yousaf, gave his acceptance speech today in which he articulated the priorities and vision of the Scottish National Party, claiming that Scotland has the talents to implement the separatist vision he embodies. Truly, Scotand has the talents. So do the Christians in Scotland. The question is, What vision …
Experience with small-time judges
The former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is experiencing what multitudes of others have experienced in their life – small-time judges. Grilled by the Commons Privileges Committee of the UK House of Commons about his possible misleading of MPs in the UK Parliament, Johnson hinted that he may refuse to accept the verdict from its …
Christianity is judged unimportant in Scotland
A Scottish National Party Leadership debate was broadcast this evening in Inverness, the capital of the Scottish Highlands. It was hosted by The Inverness Courier who requested questions by email from its readers so that "all of the issues which are most important to our readers are put to the candidates". A week before the …
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Trump is back on the Stump
Former US President Donald Trump has announced that he is back on the stump and he is running in the next US Presidential election. After asserting, with good reason, that his last Presidential election bid was stolen from him, Trump has watched the car-crash presidency of Joe Biden. He has now announced a new bid …
God-defying political boldness
The SNP Scottish Administration promoted, and the Scottish Parliament has now passed, the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. The Scottish Christian Party has drawn attention to the sexualised agenda of Scottish politics since 2006. When I said in the mid-1990s that Scotland was only halfway through the Sexual Revolution, I did not know what the …
Donald's Thoughts 