Iam not to sure about England,or indeed the whole of U.K. being a good place for Christians. It is a very secular place now and also has a large Asian and immigrant population. With being a lot smaller than the States,it would be a lot harder finding your own space. Maybe Christianity to-day can survive alongside a secular culture,things not so along ago were very different. In Ulster in my young days,swearing was very seldom heard. Most young folk were in the B.B.or G.B.

[Boys Brigade and Girls Brigade] both which had a Christian ethos. Sunday consisted mostly of ..B.B. Bible Class, in the morning,then straight into Church for morning worship,home for lunch then Sunday School in the afternoon.  Church again in the evening and afterwards an open-air service.  I can remember a B.B. officer admonishing me for whistling on a Sunday,saying if I really found the need to whistle then it should be a hymn. This may sound a wee bit over the top,but in Ulster on a Sunday it was very strict[this may be the Scots Presbyterian influence] everything closed, swings in the park were even locked,swimming pools cinemas bars etc...all closed,some folk would do all the preparing of the meals on a Saturday and then they had only to cook them on a Sunday. On a Sunday and through the week there would also Gospel Tent campaigns going on which were very well attended.  Vernon Oxford a Christian Gospel singer from Dixie said it reminded him of home. Ulster in those days had the lowest divorce rate in the western world. I can only remember one murder taking place,and muggers had'nt been heard of and respect was the 'buzz'

word. The only place that I know of that is still a wee bit like that,is the Western Isles

of Scotland.  Ulster to-day is like most places now...drugs murder rape mugging disrespect.  Just thought I'd paint a wee pen-picture for you of by-gone days in Ulster

Rab