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SUSA: Encouraging Christian involvement in politics

25/02/2010 08:30:00



SUSA, a new website which aims "To encourage and equip Christians in the UK to become more extensively and effectively engaged in politics and government" has been launched by the Bible Society. This isn't really new news (The site was featured in the Church Times earlier this month) but I'll confess to not having looked at it until now.

A quiz can be undertaken on the site during which ones 'ideal cabinet' of figures from history can be chosen - mine is apparently William Wilberforce, Oliver Cromwell and Bono. I'll let you decide what that says about me. The aim is to lead readers to explore various SUSA resources relating to faith and politics.

The site has launched with a poll on politics, faith, and integrity, which found that '72% of people say the personal integrity of their MP matters more to them than the party to which they belong'.


Three quarters of all people (71%) say that the 2009 expenses scandal has heightened their concerns over perceived integrity issues. The ComRes poll of 1000 adults also found that:

* 1 in 5 people believe that politics in the UK would be improved if more MPs read the Bible;
* a quarter of people said they would trust an MP who is a practising Christian more than one who is not;
* Over a third of people actually assumed that their MP was a Christian.


Anyway - the website is there - I suspect you'll find out more about it clicking around it than you will by my talking about it. www.susa.info


Mine's were William Wilberforce, Mother Teresa and...George Bush. YES!!!!!!!!!

Frugal Dougal | 25/02/2010 15:21:34




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