In his book To Change the World, James Davison Hunter advances the idea that if Christians are going to actually “change the world,” they need to cease trying to do just that and learn to be faithfully present. He argues that faithful presence looks like being wholly committed to one’s given relationships, local communities, and workplaces. When we live out faithful presence in the world, we do it not to change it or get what we can out of it but to simply inhabit it.
