Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are just like Britney Spears and Beyoncé Knowles. Yes, really. Big loud professions of Christian faith but when the rubber hits the road their behaviour is no different from their peers. With Britney and Beyoncé it’s sex, with Tony and Gordon it’s hatred and power.

I know it’s only the one who is without sin who should cast the first stone, but maybe I’m just frustrated that non-Christians can so easily say, “You Christians are just like the rest of us.” It isn’t, then, just about those Christians who live out their faith in the noise of the media. We all live our faith in public.

So if someone like me gets wound up by ‘famous Christians’ their conduct is only a magnified warning to us all. No room for complacency here. The spiritual disciplines and accountability are for us all.

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