BBC presenter Jeremy Vine believes that Christ is who he says he is, but doesn’t think he could say so on his show.
The Radio 2 host, who also fronts TV shows Panorama and Points of View, says society is becoming increasingly intolerant of Christian views.
He told Reform Magazine that it has become “almost socially unacceptable to say you believe in God”.
“You can’t express views that were common currency 30 or 40 years ago,” he said.
“…….but I can’t say so on air.” And why not, may I ask?
You have to know where your line is drawn. That way when you are pressured to cross it, you will know that your hour to shine has come! These are the worst and the best of times. The worst because the darkness is spreading. The best because our light shines brightest in darkness, as long as we don’t hide it under a basket of worldly concerns.
I would REALLY love to see some serious discussion on this blog (and elsewhere!) of the charge in that article that Christianity in general, but orthodox Christians in particular, are “obscure, life-denying, and regressive”. That’s the rub of Western Christianity’s survival in the 21st century. We all know (do we?) that that’s a monstrous misrepresentation of the gospel. But as caricatures go it’s potentially far more damaging than a previous generation’s concerns that Christianity was “not true” or “not relevant”. What think ye?
Perhaps if we live connected to the risen, living Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit is obvious in us, then unbelievers would want to know why we are different, what makes us tick, why we aren’t so anxious or selfish or hostile as the general run of people they meet. After all, as Christians, we have as a free gift from the Lord the things the world longs for, spends time, money, and energy to pursue, advertises for sale as a result of buying the trinkets hawked in its markets. I tried to sum that up a while back and came up with this:
FWIW