I Vow to Thee, My Country
Those who know me will be aware that I am not a Christian in terms of my religious beliefs, although I would claim to be culturally Christian in that I was raised within a nominally Christian family at a time when that religion had a much more prominent a solid position within our society. The England of my youth was a country steeped in Christian tradition, and in which almost everyone was at least nominally…
The Tragedy of the Church of England
By Frederick Dixon: “Its obscene” the vicar of Edmonton recently declared “oppressive, racist and wholly inappropriate to a multi-faith society in the 21st century”. What was the vicar railing against – the racist grooming of poor white girls by Moslem paedophile gangs, female genital mutilation, child pornography? No, none of these; the vicar’s ire was aroused by the beautiful hymn “I vow to thee my country” with its deeply patriotic interweaving of love for our…