Sublime

we have the privilege/responsibility to ask not just how we can serve as human beings in general, but also how we can serve as human beings in particular.

Any concept of justice that hopes to win broad support in the real world has to be political in these three ways: to be narrow in scope; to be free-standing of any comprehensive moral doctrine; and to be grounded in widely shared ideas drawn from the public political culture. The original position ensures that Rawls’s principles possess these featu

Similarly, when we as Christians today engage the civic space, we’re representatives of our Father in heaven. To properly go about our Father’s business, we must be informed about the civic process and understand the relationship between church and

For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

There is the common ground of the common good, and there are the semi-private domains of our diverse religious traditions. We are responsible to society for the former, to our own community for the latter.