Article June 15, 1968 Issue

Signs of the Times

Des Wilson

The Times

Des Wilson, Director of Shelter (National Campaign for the Homeless) in The Times London, England

I believe the Church's best chance of winning through to young people is to show that it appreciates that tomorrow belongs to youth and is prepared to give them a place in the creation of it. And is prepared, too, to help them create their ideal. Its chance lies, too, in its acceptance of the need to win the hearts and minds of young people with logical and practical argument. It is not enough to say: "You must have faith."

So often in my own search for the key to Christianity, I mentally searched friends of mine who are ministers of the Church, and whom I much admire, to find some piece of logic. But always in the end they fell back on '"faith." I just cannot believe that young people will today take faith as an answer in itself.

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