We should be proud of our Christian heritage. It would be a disaster to lose it
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Nick Fletcher2023-03-30T10:47:00
As a response to the declining value placed on our Christian heritage, Nick Fletcher MP has tabled a motion in parliament to discuss the value it brings to society and the hope offered in Christ
Last Easter, as I walked around my home town and Westminster, I saw more evidence of the Easter bunny than I did of the cross.
Recently, the London School of Economics (LSE) became the latest university to announce that it would be dropping the terms ‘Easter’, ‘Christmas’ and ‘Michaelmas’ from their academic calendar. It seems that many institutions want to erase or ignore their Christian heritage.
In conversations everywhere, the Lord’s name is taken in vain, and no-one seems to care.
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