I’ve been reading the book Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw. It’s a great book by a couple of radical Christian activists outlining their version of a political theology: how Christians can and should relate to presidents and kings, empire and government. According to Publisher’s Weekly, "Their entertaining yet provocative tour of the Bible’s social and economic order makes even the most abstruse Levitical laws come alive for our era. They also provide a valuable political context for Christ’s life, reminding readers that Jesus did not preach the need to put God back into government—he urged his followers to live by a different set of rules altogether, to hold themselves apart as peculiar people.*" Regardless of your agreement or disagreement with this perspective, their insights and ideas are well worth mulling over during this important year in our country’s political history.
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