it is easy for church to become a kind of “echo chamber” for one-sided political half-truths.15 Christian citizens need to view their conversations with each other as conversation with peers, rather than an exercise in clumsy solidarity, or an overworked talking past each other. If local churches can engage the Bible with the church’s witness at hand, and have conversations in smaller groups about our political participation, the result will be a more coherent articulation of Christian citizenship and a better engagement by Christian citizens in the public square.
