18 Quotes by Kaitlyn Schiess

The most politically significant aspect of our faith is the reality that it is birthed and nurtured in an alternate political community that severs another king and awaits another kingdom.  Jesus wasn't making converts - individuals who would pledge their individual support of him as a religious leader - but citizens of a new kingdom.

The sacralization of the political is a reality parallel to developments in our churches:  we've blurred the line between patriotism and faithful Christian practice, we've allowed church services to take on nationalistic dimensions, and we've elevated the nation to the level of loyalty the church alone should occupy.

The line between our political beliefs, our moral beliefs, and our theological beliefs is blurry, if not entirely invented.

We conflate "political" and "partisan," and we isolate legislative and electoral means of social engagement as the only ones tainted by sin.

It might be the most common perversion of God's people: to expect our religious devotion to excuse our injustice.

Our religious activities are worthless if they aren't causing us to live and act justly.  God does not divide between justice and worship.

Perhaps our kitchens can be outposts of the kingdom of God, as well as our churches.

The discipline of hospitality might be the greatest example of this idea I'm desperate to advance:  our political beliefs and advocacy are not primarily built on grand, sweeping claims to which we mentally assent; they are often built on ordinary impulses and biases that we inherit and absorb in small, everyday actions.

We may find ourselves represented in different positions at different times but the white American church in particular needs preachers who are willing to situate us in the place of the privileged and the powerful and to take on ourselves the associated judgements.