Wisdom from Babylon: Leadership for the Church in a Secular Age (Biblia.com)

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What does it mean to provide leadership for the church in an increasingly secular context? When religion is privatized and secularism reigns in the public square, Christians are often drawn toward either individualist escapism or constant cultural warfare. But might this context instead offer a fresh invitation for the church to adapt and thrive? Gordon Smith is passionate about the need for...

activities that assume somehow that we can bring about the kingdom.6 We are pilgrims and exiles, and we are engaged with the earthly city. Even though our ultimate identity and citizenship is in the city of God, we participate in the common good, but not with illusions. We recognize that there are limits to what can happen this side of the kingdom that is yet to come. Yes, Smith insists, we are political animals. But what makes the community of faith powerfully political is not the level of its engagement

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