“The crisis is not that we are politically homeless,” author Michael Wear has said. “The crisis is that we ever thought we could make a home in politics at all.”
How true. It’s a good reminder for all of us, especially in an election year when partisan politics threatens to compromise our witness. As Christians, whatever our politics, we need to be reminded that we have a higher allegiance.
It’s a point Russell Moore makes in his latest column, “Political Homelessness Is a Good Start.” He writes:
“Perhaps we who feel politically homeless are called to remind ourselves, along with the larger world, that we’ve too long settled for the wrong definition of home. The partisan identity politics of the moment are ultimately revealed to be a house built on sand. We’re looking instead for a different kind of home—the one with many rooms that our Father has built upon solid rock.”
Read the rest here.
