‘I was a racist. But God’s love changed my heart’
By 
Heather Tomlinson2024-08-06T16:48:00
A former member of the far right speaks out about the need for conversion to the love of Christ as the answer to the violence on our streets
Joseph Pearce spent ten years in the National Front, a far-right extremist organisation, which led to two prison sentences. He rejected this hatred in the late 1980s as he grew closer to Christ through the written work of Christian intellectuals such as CS Lewis and GK Chesterton.
Here, he explains how his heart was converted from racist hatred to the love of God, and how he thinks the Church should respond to violent extremism today.
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