Identity and risk (2)

In the second of two blogs, Philip Giddings explores Christian understandings of risks, and uncertainty and how they apply to the EU referendum. He writes that for Christians ultimate security can only be found in Almighty God. This means not having to give way to fear or fatalism in the EU referendum debates: rather we take confidence in His promise that as we walk with Him risk gives way to security and together in Him we find our true identity.

03, 23, 2016
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David Chillingworth, EU Referendum, Identity

Managing complex identities - the modern European

David Chillingworth, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, explores the question of Brexit from the perspective of an Irish person who now regards Scotland as home. He makes the case that small nations with distinctive identities respond positively to the idea that they can also be part of something much bigger, which is why Scotland seems to be more pro-EU than the rest of Britain. For the same reason he holds that it would be in our best interests if a Brexit were to lead to the break-up of the UK. He makes clear that he will vote for Britain to remain in the EU but he questions whether the referendum campaign with its complexity of different issues is really the best way of deciding this issue.

12, 07, 2015
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Belonging, Dave Landrum, Identity, Values

Never closer union?

The challenge for Christians in the EU debate writes Dave Landrum is to intelligently and relentlessly expose the sandy foundations of ever closer union, and to present a vision for a plural, hospitable and harmonious Europe bonded and informed by its core, historic Christian identity – because Jesus is (quite literally) the hope of the nations.