It can be tempting to throw our hands up and withdraw from the increasingly toxic political environment. But such a response, I believe, would betray Jesus’ teaching for us to give to God the things that are God’s and to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.
“On a beautiful March evening in the nation’s Capitol building, I experienced a hopeful moment of representative democracy,” writes Amanda Tyler about her experience attending the State of the Union address.
We live in an extreme moment — one that calls us to be extremists: extremists for justice, extremists for love.
BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler shares about her move to Texas, including how the state has become a major flashpoint in the resurgence of Christian nationalism.
The calls for political violence were bolder than I expected, and the baptisms were the strangest part of the event.