A public platform for faith

You don’t usually get to choose the most convenient time to talk about your Christian faith. If an opportunity comes it often does so in a way that just hits you in the face. A question comes out of the blue. Maybe others are listening in and you feel that you are suddenly on a platform. Perhaps it’s a controversial issue you are being asked about. And then you lose all your capacity for coherent speech.

Tim Farron was very definitely on a public platform for his faith last week when he was in...