Thought for the Day

The overriding conflict of our time is not that between democracies and totalitarianism, not between those who are for human freedom and those who seek to repress it. Rather the overriding conflict of our time is the same as that from the beginning for it is the conflict between those that would remain loyal to God’s kingdom and those that would side with the world. And the world is exactly those people and institutions claiming that Christians too must be willing to choose sides and kill in order to preserve the social orders in which they find themselves. As Christians when we accept that alternative it surely means that we are no longer the church that witnesses to God’s sovereignty over all nations, but instead we have become part of the world.

—Stanley Hauerwas