Posts Tagged ‘nationalism’


Remembrance again

Interesting responses on remembrance. I think that what disturbs me is this. Sacrifice is obviously a core Christian value. It is not absent from today’s [secular] society but it is counter-cultural - see the response to the Warwickshire firemen. The challenge of Remembrance Sunday is largely to do with how one [...]

Remembrance

I’m struggling with Sunday at present.  I get very emotional about the remembering thing - maybe because I’ve lived most of my life with strutting and posturing nationalisms and I detest them.  Done the war poets - I think I’ll go back to Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong which remains the very best for me - the [...]