A new publishing house has been formally launched to help Christians "face the challenges of the secular world".
The launch of Wilberforce Publications was joined by the Right
Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester and author of
'Triple Jeopardy for the West: Aggressive Secularism, Radical Islamism
and Multiculturalism'.
Also present was Christian Legal Centre client Dr Richard Scott,
author of 'Christians in the Firing Line', the second title from
Wilberforce Publications.
Dr Scott was reported to the General Medical Council by a patient
after discussing his faith during a private consultation at Bethesda
Medical Centre in Margate, Kent.
In his new book, he talks about the challenges he and other Christians have faced in the workplace for manifesting their faith.
The book examines thirteen cases of Christians who have been "warned,
blacklisted, suspended or dismissed for refusing to compromise their
biblical principles".
In the foreword to Christians in the Firing Line, Bishop Nazir-Ali
states: "We are made immediately aware of the price to be paid and the
cost involved whether it is loss of employment, the threat of being
struck off the registers of professional bodies or just unpopularity in
the community or the media.
"In my experience, the exclusion from employment or participation in
public life, which the people in these cases have tasted, as well as
discrimination because of belief, which they have also experienced, is
often the beginning of persecution."
The launch was also joined by lawyer John Scriven, author of
'Belief and the Nation', an application of Christian political
philosophy to areas like human rights, equality, education and freedom
of expression, and the first book to be published by Wilberforce
Publications.
The new publishing house has grown out of the Wilberforce Academy, an
annual training course for young Christian graduates and students run
by Christian Concern.