Binary cultures

A Rumour of Angels – Peter Berger, Pope Leo and Donald Trump

A Rumour of Angels – Peter Berger, Pope Leo and Donald Trump

We live in a complex global Christian matrix in a complex global multi-faith world on a fragile planet undergoing a global climate crisis. In the capitalist West the increasing dominance of right-wing authoritarian leaders and governments, dominated by Donald Trump’s second term as President of the USA, has become disastrously destructive. Pope Leo’s stand against Donald Trump is vital, but the reimagining of the commonplace dualistic belief in a God of good and evil who exists answering prayer in heaven somewhere is urgently required. But the signs of are not propitious.

The old order’s desperate decline and decay into decadence and confusion continues.

Can Christianity overcome dualism?

Can Christianity overcome dualism?

As empires diminish in our era, aggressive sectarian impulses are seemingly in the ascendant. It is our impulse to sort people into those like-me and those not-like-me. I perceive the impulse to sort traditional, orthodox, Bible-believing Christians from progressive, inclusive Christians to be an example of this. Twenty-five years on from the Kuala Lumpur Global South conference the conflict over gay sexuality and intimacy has never gone away. It has broken out again at Lambeth 2022 and is dominating the agenda. The organisers have not been able to control it.