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How can we be faithful in the public square without joining the culture wars? Though we’re urged to demonize rivals, focus on winning instead of solving problems, and put our trust in our political allegiances, is there a path that leads to choosing witness over strife?
Justin Giboney argues that the Black church tradition offers a path to combining deep Christian faith with commitment to justice. In his book Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around: How the Black Church’s Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War, he describes how that tradition’s defiance of demands to treat opponents as enemies can inspire the whole church to bear public witness in a distinctly Christian way.
Go deeper into the issues discussed in yesterday's Online Conversation with these Trinity Forum Readings:
Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Politics, Morality, and Civility by Vaclav Havel
Long Walk to Freedom
How can we be faithful in the public square without joining the culture wars? Though we’re urged to demonize rivals, focus on winning instead of solving problems, and put our trust in our political allegiances, is there a path that leads to choosing witness over strife?
Justin Giboney argues that the Black church tradition offers a path to combining deep Christian faith with commitment to justice. In his book Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around: How the Black Church’s Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War, he describes how that tradition’s defiance of demands to treat opponents as enemies can inspire the whole church to bear public witness in a distinctly Christian way.
Go deeper into the issues discussed in yesterday's Online Conversation with these Trinity Forum Readings:
Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Politics, Morality, and Civility by Vaclav Havel
Long Walk to Freedom
