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What five books at the intersection of religion and politics inspire you?

The Politics of Divine Disruption—Luke 1:46b-55 (Fritz Wendt)

The Magnificat is a song of divine disruption, the song of God’s revolution.

The Politics of Charlottesville and the Canaanite Woman—Matthew 15.21-28 (J. Leavitt Pearl)

Through his encounter with the Canaanite woman, Jesus undergoes a conversion experience from his ethnocentrism. In the ugly shadow of recent events in Charlottesville, we must follow his example.

The Politics of Walking on Water—Matthew 14:22-33 (Amy Allen)

In the interaction between God’s establishment of circumstances and our free response to them, we see something of the way that God enables us to be more human.