Here is a leafy stretch of road between Wendover and Ellesborough, at the north-eastern edge of the Chilterns, what you might call deep Buckinghamshire. And here on the boundary wall of one of the grand houses along this stretch are a pair of t-shirts, or rather t-shirts converted to banners. (I had read a bit about Belly Mujinga’s death but Oliver Charles-Christian —the last names are mistakenly reversed on the t-shirt — was unknown to me.) What’s striking about these banners is not that they exist, but that they are displayed on the wall of such a house in such a location. Whether you call all it cryptocalvinism, the Great Awokening, or the social justice gospel, it seems that the new religion has begun its conversion of Middle England.
Published on September 12, 2020
‘Awokening.’ Excellent.