For Christians, no event is purely political or pragmatic. Events are set in the context of the struggle for the Kingdom of Heaven as Jesus described it. Christians ought therefore to be used to looking beyond the surface of things to understand their more nuanced implications. If the Anglican Church has a weakness today, it is to have surrendered its grasp of the spiritual to its passion for the political.
The migration crisis that Europe faces divides people and politicians in their response. Just at the political and practical level, no one seems to know how to manage the humanitarian crisis on the one hand and the forces that have created it on the other.
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