In mid-college, I returned to the Roman Catholic Church. Second, I have wrestled with the extremes of how to relate faith to politics. I include this prologue for two reasons: First, to acknowledge that, despite joy in my new church family, I write this review as someone who still feels like an observer, slowly getting acquainted with a less familiar world. In college, I occasionally attended a Bible study organized by a friend who was active in Chi Alpha Campus Ministry, but my frame of reference for Protestantism was decidedly limited, with evangelical an abstraction confined to the South. My experience of Protestantism through the first two decades of my life was limited to email exchanges with the late theologian Marcus Borg and brief attendance at an Episcopal church adjacent to my hometown’s common. In middle school, I was baptized in the Latter-day Saint church before spending most of high school in a syncretic skeptical wilderness, marked by superficial forays into progressive Christian theology, Buddhism, and the like. I grew up Catholic in New England, born just a few years before The Boston Globe published its landmark investigation into clerical sex abuse that roiled my archdiocese for years to come. I’m a neophyte in the world of Protestantism, with my wife and I deciding just this past spring to start attending a non-denominational church near our home in Virginia. While there are countless angles from which to approach Tim Alberta’s incisive forthcoming book, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory, I determined the most honest starting point would be to follow Alberta’s example: by making it personal.
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