ABSTRACT
Pupils should know that many charitable organizations were started out of a sense of Christian mission. Years of being told in school that you should love your neighbour has certainly contributed to the fact that charity is central to our British way of life. Equally Christianity is not a domestic product that may or may not please UK citizens who happen to be walking around today. It is important that, at some point, pupils begin to understand the spread of Christianity throughout the world and the wide variety of ways in which the tradition has developed. Christianity cannot be taught without reference to the influence of Judaism and Islam. The fact that modernity has turned against Christianity is itself testimony to the continuing effect of the faith. Sometimes modernity is right to turn against Christianity since the church and the churches have not always got it right.
