‘We need to do the work of building ideas and visions.’ Photo: Randy Colas / Unsplash.
‘To apply discipleship to political life, we have to think systemically.’
What do we mean when we discuss ‘politics’? Johan Maurer offers a perspective from evangelical Friends in the US and Russia
by Johan Maurer
6th March 2020
Not long ago, I was one of several Americans talking with a sixteen-year-old Palestinian from Gaza. As she answered our questions about her family’s experiences living inside that locked-down territory, she said something I’d never heard from a teenager anywhere: ‘How can we not talk politics? Our life is politics.’
