Live Quietly: A Christian Case Against Political Power

Flags in sanctuaries. Voter guides in church lobbies. Sermons that sound like campaign speeches. The American church has spent decades fusing its identity with partisan politics, and the Christ it shows the world bears little resemblance to the one in the Gospels.Live Quietly argues that the New Testament envisions something radically different.Drawing on a close reading of 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12...