…intriguing suggestions). No, Wisdom is among the people just as God is among the people. And God’s message is for the people, even when it concerns the matters of politics….
…articulate how faith informs her politics. In the rodeo metaphor, she’s a decorated barrel racer—a focused pro, but not riveting. To me, the Sanders phenomenon is more interesting, less because…
…their social and cultural concerns, this relationship has generated a distinguishing feature amongst Western politics, the American ‘values voter’. The issues that stir Christian conservatives are well known as they…
…least in the US setting, “Christian nationalism” (Whitehead and Perry) has become the primary shorthand to critique problematic Christian politics. Marcia Pally, in her essay, uses a very helpful explanatory…
…call micropolitics—politics of the multitude, represented not by the will of the sovereign, but by the tendencies, alignments, and intensities of the many. In the absence or neglect of official…
…conclusion to draw from this passage is the identification of new creation with the capacity of the faithful to talk the talk and walk the walk. The politics of new…
…witness. Christians who believe in such love should be wary of both the politics of condemnation and the politics of purity. This passage starts in the midst of Jesus’ conversation…
…might be termed evangelicals’ “disrespectability politics.” But Trump’s tough guy, vulgar manner appealed to the heirs of a different, older and persistent evangelical tradition: that of raucous, snarky political disrespect….
…threads them together effectively is the theme of ‘place.’ (Another promising approach to this text might be the politics of time—but that is for another day.) From the Pharisee’s initial…
…and reflect on what it might mean to name “love” as a guiding force for politics and activism. While their responses represent a wide range of approaches and stances, they…
…activists are confounded by the growing support among many Asian Americans, Blacks, and Latinos for conservative politics generally, and the Republicans and Donald Trump in particular. Expecting these minorities to…
…applied in the reading of the Scripture and the proclamation that it is “the Word of the Lord.” There is the incredible increase of ten talents and three talents doubling…