The state is a means of God’s ‘common grace’. The Bible is very clear that the governing authorities act on God’s behalf to restrain evil and promote what is good (Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2). This benefits all people in this world, not just Christians.

When it comes to matters of public policy, Christians have to assess biblical priorities. We can distinguish those political issues on which the Bible is absolutely clear from those on which it is not.

A proper understanding of Britain’s membership of the EU has always involved questions of nationhood and sovereignty, economics and trade, democracy and accountability, defence and international relations, as well as the implications for Christian freedom.

The animals went in two by two. Or did they? The account of Noah’s Ark didn’t sit well in Judith Lorber’s ideal ‘gender-free’ world. If Martin Luther King wanted his children to experience racial equality, she dreamed of a future where there would be ‘gender equality’.

Oliver Cromwell is a man who divides opinion like few others, but his heart was to unite the godly, rather than foster division.

On 16 November 2012, a judge ruled that Adrian Smith had ‘done nothing wrong’ in describing same-sex weddings in churches as “an equality too far”.