Word for the Week

Week beginning: 18th August, 2013

By Dominic Hughes

"With one voice they cried out, "Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!" ... they kept shouting "Crucify him! Crucify him!""

and

"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ..."

Luke 23:18, 21 (NIV, 1984) and Ephesians 3:17b-18 (NIV, 1984)

Here are two related errors that Christian lawyers can fall into...

The first error is thinking that the secular legal culture around us is actually not that bad and not that different from our own values. For example, I have on many occasions heard