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Given that we are supposed to be living in “a secular age”, the West has a surprising number of religious politicians. The US (obviously), UK, Australia, Russia, Germany, Canada, and even France have had devout Christians in power for much of the last generation.

That’s why I decided to put together The Mighty and the Almighty: how political leaders do God. The book looks at 24 of these leaders – from Thatcher and Reagan, through Mandela and Clinton, to May and Trump – and asks what they believed and what, if any difference, it made.

Nick Spencer| Read the full article from I News

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