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Despite the recent post-modernist revolt, Western culture still labours under much of the mythological residue left over from the Enlightenment. The axiom, for example, that religion is unimportant and irrelevant still survives.

Society should be redesigned along secular lines. Substitution of a materialistic for a religious worldview would leave morality unaffected and economic prosperity and political peace to thrive. It would simply be a case of being more practical - more tolerant, more progressive, less superstitious.

After a law degree at Cambridge, Ranald Macaulay went to Switzerland to help Francis Schaeffer in the work of L'Abri Fellowship. He later returned to the UK to do a theological degree at King's College, London, after which he and his wife, Susan, started a branch of L'Abri in Hampshire in 1971.

In 1977, he co-authored the book Being Human, recently re-published by Solway. He also founded and pastored two Presbyterian congregations in London and Hampshire. Since July 1997, he and his family have been living in Cambridge.