Loving country without losing the gospel

Graham Nicholls  |  Comment
Date posted:  11 Dec 2025
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Loving country without losing the gospel

Royal Wedding Celebrations in London, 2011. Source: iStock.

Christmas decorations are now up everywhere. For some people, this is a welcome relief from the ongoing proliferation of the various UK flags in all those places and more.

When it comes to the flags, some of us find it tempting to make harsh and hasty judgements about those putting them up, perhaps condemning a caricature of Christian nationalism as we do so.

At the other extreme, some of us make similarly swift and severe judgements about those intent on taking the flags down – possibly because we have blurred the lines between loving Jesus and loving our country.

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