Christianity and conservatism. Bedfellows or arch enemies?

The start of an occasional series examining how political theory and Christianity interact.

Edmund Burke, pictured in Evert A. Duyckinick, 'Portrait gallery of eminent men and women in Europe and America' (1873)

Working at the intersection of faith and politics there’s a question that is never far from onlookers’ minds. I remember when I first got my job at the Evangelical Alliance and told colleagues – at my very secular workplace – what I wou…