At the start of each sitting day in the House of Lords a prayer is read by a Lord Spiritual (made up of the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, Durham and Winchester as well as specific bishops of the Church of England).
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I’ve been giving this quite a bit of thought lately – how do you define a Christian country? Is it one that contains more than 50% of it’s population as Christians? That’s something that America has seen change recently, with their percentages dropping below 50% for the first time.
Politics is not government, although without one you might not have the other! We often get our backs up when ‘politics’ enter the church, but we’re open to a governing structure, sometimes ones that are man made.
