Here's what Tim Farron should have said to John Humphrys and Cathy Newman

Three interesting bits of theology in the media last week, two of them thanks to Tim Farron.

Interviewing Farron, John Humphrys noted that he has said that he seeks ‘guidance from God’ in prayer, on important decisions. Shouldn’t voters be concerned about this turn away from normal evidence-based decision-making? A foolish question. Farron rightly replied that it surely wasn’t so shocking if a Christian said his prayers. What next?

Humphrys: So, Mr Farron, you were heard just last Sunday publicly expressing the wish that ‘God’s kingdom’ should come, and I quote, ‘on earth as it is in heaven’. That would surely be a total change to Britian’s political system, and to our secular way of life, and it’s something that the voters have not been consulted on. How do you square that with your much-boasted liberalism? Farron: Well, it’s a very conventional Christian prayer… Humphrys: That’s irrelevant surely! The fact is, is it not, that you yearn for a radical change to our politics, and a rolling back of the pluralist advances of recent times?