The flourishing of individuals is premised on relationships of mutual care and fidelity that radiate outward. COVID-19 exposes the death of our current order and calls us back to that mutual love, writes Jake Meador.
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The Skill of Hospitality
L.M. Sacasas
In this reflection on the thought of Ivan Illich, L.M. Sacasas writes that there can be no substitute for the work of rediscovering our common humanity in the practice of hospitality, which, insofar as it flowers into friendship, will be the starting point of politics.
Exodus
Katherine Boyle
When it comes to Silicon Valley, 2020 is not the great reckoning predicted in the book of Revelation, despite the fires, the plagues, and the wailing on Twitter. It is the resignation and determination of Exodus, of a dogged people packing up U-Hauls and fleeing this frontier state to seek an even newer, more eternal world.
What to an Immigrant Is the Third of November?
Dhananjay Jagannathan
A nationalism rooted in values encourages us to be fierce in our opposition to injustices that lie outside our immediate gaze. It tends to foster fellow-feeling beyond the bonds of immediate affinity. It gives us orientation when difficult political questions face us, while also inspiring us to reject the politics of friend and enemy.
Observations of a New Citizen
Irena Dragaš Jansen
As 2020’s contentious election season builds to a climax, a former resident of the Communist eastern bloc, newly an American citizen, reflects on her political journey, one that traces the travails of Christianity’s own courtship of political cynicism.
Wrestling with Sovereignty in a Kairos Year
Amy Julia Becker
In late April, crowds of people gathered at the Pennsylvania statehouse to protest stay-at-home measures taken in response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Parked out front of the capital was the cab of a dark green 18-wheeler with the words “Jesus is my vaccine”...
From Politically Homeless to Political Homemakers
Rachel Anderson
Rather than waiting for the ideal political home, Christians should look for a different type of place in politics—one that works to maintain a social structure within which the diverse members and activities in our society can flourish together.
Politics at the End of the World
Onsi Kamel
All earthly happiness is precarious. Yet, as Augustine wrote, rather than filling us with despair, this should free us to reckon honestly with the world as it is while simultaneously persevering within it.
We Need More Christian Partisanship, Not Less
Daniel Stid
How can Christians realize the promise while avoiding the pitfalls of political parties and partisanship—and, in the process, help our society do so as well?
A Tale of Two Evangelicalisms
Joel Halldorf
How can those whose theology and spirituality are so similar hold such widely different political opinions? Swedish public theologian Joel Halldorf compares and contrasts the history of faith and politics in the United States and Sweden.