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CONTENTS
Introduction 5
Section 1: Democracy, Christianity and Christians 9
- Understanding the challenge 10
- Understanding democracy 16
- Can Christians be of help? 23
- Understanding the Christian worldview 29
Section 2: Overcoming the barriers 37
- Reasons to hang back 38
- Cultural change is never easy 45
- Knowing where you stand 50
- Quality leadership 56
Section 3: Good soil 65
- The roots of democracy are essentially Christian 66
- The modern secular state’s view of itself 73
Section 4: Democracy under fire 79
- Secularism pushes religion aside 80
- Truth in the news 87
- Surviving challenges from within 94
Section 5: Christianity at your service 101
- Helping to support the foundations 102
- Addressing key needs of democracy 108
- Christianity’s useful hidden assets 116
Section 6: Problems and solutions 125
- The myth of progress 126
- Sustaining personal freedoms 133
- The migrant crisis 139
- The book of nature 145
In conclusion 158
- The job that needs to be done 158
Endnotes 168