‘If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’, wrote George Orwell. Nearly 75 years ago Animal Farm was published. Famously, its author, George Orwell, believed that real liberty must involve the freedom to call out lies.
Fifty years ago the great Christian thinker Francis Schaeffer wrote Escape from Reason.
We’re occasionally asked why we don’t campaign on such and such a topic – most frequently poverty and the environment.
By 1660, the British people were crying out for a king. Most had never fully taken to the Cromwellian vision of a republic. A return to a monarchy was inevitable, but not without opposition.
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Revd Dr Richard Turnbull opened The Christian Institute’s fourth Autumn Lecture challenging the idea of the Puritans as “straight-laced bigots”. Instead, he argued, they were people attracted to a vision of Jesus Christ in a way we need to learn from today.
