Who will call the nation to prayer? by a correspondent There will be few who are not beginning to grasp the seriousness of the 18 September and Scotland’s Yes/No vote. Everyone agrees that the country is in crisis. But it is also a time to see what the spiritual leaders are made of. Will someone, anyone in the church call the nation to prayer? I don’t mean a call to more dialogue, more discussion, more video sermonettes, more dreaminess through mind-altering fourth-rate music. I mean prayer. Either way now, September 18th will prove to be a head wound from which this country cannot recover. In the unlikely event that Scotland were to stay in the union, the powers devolved to it would be so far reaching and precedent setting that neither Wales nor Northern Ireland could resist the opportunity to renegotiate their positions. Some effects are readily imaginable: pensions, mortgages, the national debt. But what of the long-term, far-reaching ones - the Monarchy, the drift towards further fragmentation and federalisation, the end of 300 years of history? So who will call the nation to prayer? Where now are the voices of the clerics who only a year ago supported laws anathema to God? Will they call the nation to repentance? Or will the call come – as it has in the past – from unknown old ladies on their knees in shabby homes impoverished through giving and spiritual living?
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:40:11 +0000
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