Local bureaucrats who have no sense of Britain’s religious history are squeezing faith out of public life, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. He says those who think religion is ‘automatically a problem in our public life’ often lack an understanding of Britain’s Judeo-Christian heritage. Speaking in the House of Lords, Dr Rowan Williams said a generation of administrators and local officials has grown up with ‘little or no sense’ of ‘how our political and legal history’ is shaped by its relationship with Judaism and Christianity. He said that ‘failure of understanding’ is one of the reasons for ‘the reluctance in recent years to develop effective partnership between statutory bodies and faith groups in the work of social regeneration’. He did however say that there were signs of improvement in the area. The Archbishop has previously accused the Government of treating religious faith as a ‘problem’ and an ‘eccentricity’ practiced by ‘oddities, foreigners and minorities’.

Pray: for the re-establishment of Biblical faith in public life. (2 Pe.1:21)

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