![The Politics of True Discipleship](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/eberhard-grossgasteiger-CytHrRFp2wU-unsplash-scaled-e1579547726318-600x600.jpg)
In following Jesus, they would break the chains of doing things the way they were always done, and they would have a chance to form a new community. But they were to leave behind all the comfort and security.
By Fritz Wendt
![Enough with the Hyperpartisan Split-Screen](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DP-14050-001-600x600.jpg)
Hyperpartisanship is not, as naive commentators said in the early 1980s about cocaine, a “harmless, recreational drug.” We need to stop snorting our lines of political cocaine, sober up, stop demonizing the “other”, and start listening to each other.
By Carl Raschke