A little over a year ago, we visited with Kaitlyn Schiess for the first time. It was an important conversation talking about spiritual formation and politics. I’m sure you will find it helpful. We will bring it back for round two.
I’m confident you will enjoy our conversation with Kaitlyn Schiess as much as we did! She is our guest for what is our second-anniversary episode! It was a great way to celebrate two years of the City on a Hill podcast. Kaitlyn is a colleague in helping the church represent Jesus in its public life! We are glad she joined us today!
NOTES:
It seems like Kaitlyn is everywhere!
Kaitlyn is a writer, author, and a ThD student at Duke Divinity School studying political theology, ethics, and biblical interpretation. She graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 2021 with a ThM in systematic theology.
She is the author of The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor, released with InterVarsity Press in September 2020. She has a book coming out with Brazos Press in August of 2023, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here.
She has written about theology, politics, and culture at places like Christianity Today, The New York Times, Christ and Pop Culture, CT Women, RELEVANT, Sojourners, Fathom, and the Christian Research Journal. She has also contributed to this New York Times piece and this HuffPost piece. She wrote a chapter about political theology, Augustine, and conspiracy theories for a forthcoming Eerdmans book, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross, releasing in May 2023.
She is a co-host of the Holy Post podcast. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram, too. She really is everywhere!
RECAP/TAKEAWAYS:
- Kaitlyn reminds us that we are formed by what we repeatedly do and what we are repeatedly exposed to.
- Christians believe other stories that substitute for the true gospel. Beware!
- Different generations experience the intersection of church and politics differently.
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MUSIC:
Little Lily Swing, Tri-Tachyon, Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/the-kleptotonic-ep/little-lily-swing