Stand at the crossroads and look

'Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it and you will find rest for your souls' (Jeremiah 6v16)

This blogspot is dedicated to restoring the christian foundations of the Labour Party.

MMTM - stands for 'More Methodism than Marx'. It is believed that Labour's roots owe more to the ideology and activism of non-conformist christians than the secular, materialistic ideology of Marxism. Indeed this quote is often attributed to Morgan Phillips or Harold Wilson. Whoever coined the phrase it encapsulates the understanding that deep within Labour's DNA is a strand of christian faith.

In a time when the Labour Party appears to have lost it's way and the aggressive secular agenda seems dominant in the Labour Party, christians on the left are gathering to pray and seek God to renew this presence once again in the Labour Party. We seek to network with christians who are biblically serious and spirit filled and prepared to to take their rightful place on the centre-left.

Currently, politics appears to to be in flux and held in low esteeem in our nation. The forces of cynicism and consumerism seem to be battering the foundations of the body-politic. Thus, we need a new generation of christian pioneers, faithfully serving the original vision of those men and women who, thank God, formed the Labour Party at the very beginning of the 20th century.

We need to develop a discourse, rooted in God's word that articulates that politics is public service, for the christian it is mission also. The church needs to affirm what is good within politics whilst prophetically speaking for justice and righteousness, over and above political expediency. We must not allow one party to be seen as christian and one as secular. If we do not act we could be in a situation, which mirrors to some degree the situation in the US, where christian engagement in politics is associated with the forces of the right. Though caricatured no doubt this strand of ideology is seen as judgemental, biblically narrow and perhaps owing more to cultural factors than the gospel itself. We need in the UK, christian involvement in all parties, and most definately within the Labour movement.