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The sabotage of the church - privatisation (#143)

How the church became relegated to the private sphere

In the third part of this series looking at Os Guinness’ book The Gravedigger Files, we look at privatisation: as the world became divided up into the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, Christianity became relegated to the private sphere. How did this happen, what effect has it had, and what can we do about it?

I apologise if you have any problems with the audio. My microphone wasn’t plugged in properly and was causing a buzzing noise which I didn’t realise until editing afterwards. I have tried to eliminate the buzz but it might still sound a bit strange!

The article here I mentioned:

Conservative Christian NPCs?

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September 18, 2024
Conservative Christian NPCs?

One of the new words I’ve seen coined lately is ‘NPC’, short for ‘Non-Player Character’. It originates in the world of computer gaming: an NPC is a character which is played by the computer rather than a human person. They usually act completely predictably - they don’t have their own opinions, initiative, or anything. They simply say and do

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