In the UK the tectonic plates of political life are shifting, and no one quite knows what the landscape will look like when they settle. With resignations and defections, the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition must be feeling distinctly nervous as they break for their party’s annual conferences. 

Two thousand years ago political intrigue was just as rife of course, but rather easier to manage. Caesar was Lord and the way to deal with any opponent was just to kill them before things got too serious. So, when a rag-tag bunch of misfits started upsetting things by declaring that a penniless carpenter-turned preacher called Jesus was the new King in town, brutal oppression was the order of the day. The difficulty was that no matter how many Christians were killed more just seemed to appear. You see this new movement was not based on any political system but on the conviction that Jesus had died and then been raised to life. That was his spectacular power play and no-one, not even Caesar, had an answer for that.

In the end even he had to admit that there was another King more powerful than he and bow before him; and, in the end, so must we.

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