Politics and the Pulpit

Shortly after the French Revolution began, Dr Richard Price preached a sermon in London exhorting Englishmen to support it. Edmund Burke MP was scandalised, and replied that the Church was a place for the Christian good news, and not for comment on current affairs, adding that many clergy overestimated their grasp of unfolding political controversies.

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