Why the Big Society Needs to Be Built On a Foundation of Holiness ; Thursday Essay There's a Growing Suspicion That There's Something Rotten in the Body Politic but the Cure Is Closer Than We Think, Writes Gethin Abraham-Williams, Former Chief Executive of Churches Together in Wales

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AVID CAMERON'S faith guru, Phillip Blond, more or less admitted recently that the Big Society will need a dose of Christian values if it's to succeed.

"Moral markets, and a return to civic association," said Mr Blond, director of ResPublica think tank and author of Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It, "require Christian values: mutuality, subsidiarity, reciprocity, solidarity, meditation, both in the theological and institutional sense."

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Why the Big Society Needs to Be Built On a Foundation of Holiness ; Thursday Essay There's a Growing Suspicion That There's Something Rotten in the Body Politic but the Cure Is Closer Than We Think, Writes Gethin Abraham-Williams, Former Chief Executive of Churches Together in Wales

It's an interesting list, but its significance is in danger of being lost because it's couched in language that conceals its explosive potential.

As I read it, one of the values that it seems to be crying out to make is that of fairness. Because the ...

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