Faith & Politics: Three book recommendations for Election Day

Last updated on: June 1, 2020 at 2:30 pm by Kelley Mathews

Faith & Politics: Three book recommendations for Election Day 2020-06-01T14:30:05-05:00 Kelley Mathews

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The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

My first recommendation will be the last one available, as it releases September 8, 2020. Kaitlyn Schiess, a theology student at Dallas Theological Seminary, is called prophetic and a voice for a new generation. I call her a brilliant thinker. In The Liturgy of Politics, Schiess speaks to a generation of young Christians who “are weary of the political legacy they’ve inherited and are hungry for a better approach. They’re tired of seeing their faith tied to political battles they didn’t start, and they’re frustrated with leaders they thought they could trust.” She shows that the church’s politics are shaped by its habits and practices, even when it’s unaware of them. Spiritual formation, and particularly a focus on formative practices, are experiencing a renaissance in Christian thinking―but these ideas are not often applied to the political sphere. Schiess insists that the way out of our political morass is first to recognize the formative power of the political forces all around us, and then to recover historic Christian practices that shape us according to the truth of the gospel. (Pre-order here: Amazon)

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