A reader wrote in with some helpful feedback recently – and it is out of that feedback that this month’s opinion column springs.
For it is true, as this correspondent stated, that some of the news we have all faced over the last few years has been extremely depressing. Whether it is the Covid pandemic, political instability in the UK and US, the war in Ukraine, the situation in Afghanistan – or church scandals, the increasing secularisation of the West, the challenges of holding Christian views in everyday jobs – there has been plenty to pull us down. The list goes on.
It is in this context that once again, despite the broken world in which we live, we want to find renewed hope in Christ. C.S. Lewis famously said: ‘Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.’
