James K.A. Smith
James K.A. Smith teaches philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His latest book is Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology (Baker Academic).
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A funny thing happened on the way to the church-as-polis: I can now imagine being a resident alien and invested in the state, in all of its glorious failing.
If Christian liturgy works on the imagination, so do disordered secular liturgies. Social media—despite its good uses—might be one example.