A generation of Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited and are hungry for a better approach.
They want to seek the common good, but they don’t want a broken political system to corrupt their motives or capture their hearts. They are often tempted to think they need to reinvent the wheel or discard the entirety of the Christian faith. I think there’s a better way forward.I am passionate about retrieving and preserving the gifts of the historic and global Christian church for the sake of our political witness today - the gifts of rich political theology, robust spiritual formation, and faithful examples to model.
I’ve spent the last ten years of my life thinking, writing, and speaking about this better path forward. Some of that work has resulted in books - I published The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture has been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here with Brazos Press in 2023 and The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor with InterVarsity Press in 2020. Some of that work has resulted in writing for a variety of outlets, including Christianity Today, The New York Times, Christ and Pop Culture, RELEVANT, and Sojourner. Some of that work has been done alongside the Holy Post Media team: I am a co-host of the Holy Post podcast and the host of the podcast Curiously, Kaitlyn, two shows that work to help Christians think well and live faithfully in a pluralistic world. My work has also been nourished by my academic studies: I have a ThM in systematic theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and am currently a doctoral student in political theology at Duke Divinity School.