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Something Profound?

So, Rach commented that in this momentous political week I haven't had much to say. Not one to take a challenge lightly I have been pondering today about how to broach the arrival of a new prime minister.

I got the Sojourners email last night.. Jim Wallis probably put it much better than I can. In GB we have a Prime Minister who cares for the poor. I have thought for some time that he may be a bigger hero for Africa than domestically.

But, sooner than expected, he faces a domestic/ international challenge. Two car bombs. Both miraculously (and I don't use the word lightly) defused. Will GB resist the temptation to go down the line of more draconian laws? I hope so.

I like living in a country where we still have the freedom to buy the stuff to make those bombs. No terror laws that detain people can stop that stuff. I hope that GB remembers that. I hope he remembers what he has said before, that we have to look at the reasons why people want to blow us up.

I wish him luck.. if luck is the right word.

Comments

Michael said…
Do you think people are justified in wanting to blow us up??
12:20 pm
Jude said…
Ultimately if we buy into a retributive view of how the world works then yes. I don't think we can rampage as we have done for 300 years and expect no consequence to that. But, I also believe in a gracious and redemptive God.
12:19 pm
rach said…
I'm gonna have to read that again now I've sussed that GB doesn't stand for Great Britain.

That is why you write the political blogs and I don't!
4:17 pm
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