We've reached another World Cup. Thirty two nations are represented at it and endless columns will be written before,during and after the event in Russia.
My contribution will be a spiritual thought about each country - in alphabetical order.
Argentina is an amazing country with a very mixed relationship with England at football and with the UK regarding the Falkland Islands over which, in 1982, a war was fought. Argentina has a very different relationship, though, with Wales.
Over 150 years ago Welsh settlers made their home in Patagonia and still today thousands of their descendants keep the welsh language and many customs alive. Here's a Welsh Revival hymn at the Chubut Eisteddfod:
In fact, apart from a certain antipathy to the English for different but not unrelated historical reasons the Welsh and the Argentinians also have in common a history of Revival. One of the great Argentine revivals began almost immediately after the 1982 war defeat in the Malvinas/Falklands.
At least some of us in the UK would have chosen a Revival from God over a military victory if that choice had been put to us.
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