city as well. From an early age, these three callings to philosophical reflection, political action, and spiritual devotion were constantly churning in Mouw’s mind and heart in uncomfortable but profoundly generative ways.3 Later, on the first page of his first book, Mouw writes: “My training within the environs of ‘conservative-evangelical’ Christianity did not provide me with a theological framework adequate to deal with the concerns over social justice, racism, and militarism that were so much