Pastor's Lunch with Kaitlyn Schiess

2600 Cleveland Ave NW,Canton OH 44709

12 October, 2021

Description

Pastor's and church leaders are invited to join us for a lunch as we host Kaitlyn Schiess to talk about her book: The Liturgy of Politics. Kaitlyn Schiess' The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor seeks to question the underlying assumptions that have captured the Evangelical conversations about faith and politics in the last generations. Rendering accessible the "liturgical" philosophy of James K.A. Smith, Schiess works to consider spiritual formation beyond debates over theological positions and look at how our lives are being formed and shaped by our political culture and our responses to it. From the book cover: A generation of young Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited and hungry for a better approach. They're tired of seeing their faith tied to political battles they didn't start, and they're frustrated by the failures of leaders they thought they could trust. Kaitlyn Schiess grew up in this landscape, and understands it from the inside. Spiritual formation, and particularly a focus on formative practices, are experiencing a renaissance in Christian thinking―but these ideas are not often applied to the political sphere. In The Liturgy of Politics, Schiess shows that the church's politics are shaped by its habits and practices even when it's unaware of them. Schiess insists that the way out of our political morass is first to recognize the formative power of the political forces all around us, and then to recover historic Christian practices that shape us according to the truth of the gospel. Biography: Kaitlyn Schiess is a writer living in Dallas, TX. She is a staff writer at Christ and Pop Culture, and her writing has also appeared at Christianity Today, Relevant, and Fathom Magazine. She is finishing a ThM at Dallas Theological Seminary while working in local church ministry with young adults in their 20s and 30s. The Center for Christian Faith & Culture exists to explore the wisdom of the Christian intellectual tradition in order to foster theological literacy, prayerful contemplation, and faithful reasoning within the Church, the academy, and other areas of professional life.