Education
Another area of intense interest to the church is education. While increasing secularisation has meant that Christianity has been squeezed out of the mainstream of education in our schools, pluralism has meant that religious education is now a form of comparative religious study. Any moral element in education, such as in personal and social education (PSE), has to be taught in a non-judgmental and uncommitted way. Thus issues about sexuality, gender roles and the sanctity of life are presented in a purportedly neutral manner and the children, who lack the criteria by which to judge what is right and wrong, are even more confused and pick up their values from their peers and the media. As parents of covenant children we must make our voice heard in these matters.