The Christian roots of Europe: The phrase puts me off. It points to something true, yes, and contemporary Europe remains profoundly indebted to its Christian past. Even the transnational ambition of the European Union reflects the desire for a secularized Christendom. Brussels builds on the memory of an older form of European unity, one wounded by the Reformation and then demolished by ideology and nationalism. But too often Christians speak about the Christian roots of Europe in a nostalgic, backward-looking way. They use it to evade a harder and more important topic: the Christian future of Europe.

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