The 2016 referendum on the UK’s continuing membership of the EU was not the first time UK voters had gone to the polls in an EU referendum, but it is certainly the one that history will recall in any post-2016 account of Europe.
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As a nation, Britain was extremely badly prepared for the referendum on EU membership. There is a longstanding legacy of British neglect of the EU, indeed of all things ‘European’, not least among those who shape public debate in politics and the media.
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Many Christians who said they were going to vote Leave had narratives that dominated their perspective. They didn’t all use the same language but three distinct controlling narratives were repeated over and over again.
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For many years I have been interested in mission in Europe, encompassing the preaching of the gospel, justice ministries, and engagement in the public square. This deepened when I had the opportunity to live in Brussels in the 1990s, working in the Legal Service of the European Commission
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