Augustine points us to political faithfulness in light of the full scope of redemptive history. Our hopes for politics include pursuing real goods, but with the recognition that these goods remain tempered, limited, and proximate inside of time. 

This article focuses on how the law does and should deal with pluralism in the area of human sexuality.

This conversation with Jenny Yang demonstrates the importance of engaging the Church in considering its role in the national conversation about immigration, while also ensuring that our government provides good structures and laws to enable immigrant families to thrive.

In what ways do faith-based and community organizations serve immigrants and refugees as families in the United States?

Arguing that family unity is a bedrock belief, Rondell Treviño engages issues of immigration from a biblical perspective.

Families are at the foundation of our nation, yet increasingly family-based immigration services are being challenged.

Is it possible that the dinner table is where we might learn what it means to be hospitable?

At a time of such complex and heated discussions revolving around deportation, it behooves Christians to base their stance on the topic in their Scriptures.

In the struggle between family and nation, now at the forefront of our national debate, who gets priority? 

How can we cultivate the craft of citizenship as an expression of the divinely given vocation to steward and order the earth? 

Recognizing the appropriate role of government in our lives, alongside other institutions like families, businesses, schools and churches, how can we also support, in a distinctive way, those in our congregations who are called to labor in the political arena? And what might that look like? In this article, Jim Talen, a Kent County Commissioner, reflects on his experience with this in his own congregation.

How can we, as Christian citizens, train ourselves in the necessary theological, historical, and practical foundations we will need to engage the very difficult topic of immigration?

Dr. Kevin den Dulk explores the ways that our most prominent educational frameworks reproduce rather than meet key challenges to citizen formation in the current age.

How can the church prepare its disciples to follow Jesus into a divided and traumatized world? Matthew Kaemingk offers compelling answers his article that explores the political nature of worship.