<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jubilee Centre - Blog]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/jubilee/blogs.php</link><description><![CDATA[Comments on the blog: After the Vote: Coalition and Fellowship]]></description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:02:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Graham Cotter]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/300/after_the_vote_coalition_and_fellowship#comment1413</link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for the Jubilee News reflections received on line. 
It is good to read your thoughts about political engagement. I read Dr. Brian Mawhinny's autobiography In the firing line some years ago, and it influenced me in our whole engagement with our MP at the time. 
I wondered however if you are stressing 'light' at the expense of 'salt'? In some ways the promoting of light is a more comfortable activity and I certainly agree that it is important to build good relationships with those serving in politics based on respect and trust. A wider Christian input on the deficit reduction, education, immigration, parliamentary reform is admirable. 
Salt, - being salty prevents moral decay, - is a more uncomfortable pursuit, necessitating the taking up of the cross in following the master. Is there a danger of compromise in steering away from comment on homosexual practice, adoption and abortion? (I gather that the Conservative party has closed down discussion within the arena of homosexual practice.)
I'm not sure that with the abolition of slavery Wm. Wilberforce would have got very far if he had waited for a community consensus to emerge within his constituency. 
With warm thanks for the ministry of the Jubilee Centre.
 
]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/300/after_the_vote_coalition_and_fellowship#comment1413</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:02:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeremy Ive]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/300/after_the_vote_coalition_and_fellowship#comment1402</link><description><![CDATA[Apart from those in Witney or Sheffield, none of us voted for either; and there were many in those constituencies who cast their votes for other candidates. This is not the basis on which we are to obey our government, even if it were an autocracy, as in the Roman Empire when the early Christians were told to pray for their government.  You are right, we must pray for our constituency MPs and our new Governement.  However, this does not stop us from working for a fairer and better representative electoral system, regardless of whether or not we support this Government, which, by the way, has engaged in principled discussion and co-operation between the parties -- an excellent start to a new politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/300/after_the_vote_coalition_and_fellowship#comment1402</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:28:38 GMT</pubDate></item><atom:link href="http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments.xml.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /></channel></rss>
