Quiet Time: A Better Political Imagination

Dear God of all nations and neighborhoods, When Peter wrote to scattered churches under Roman imperial pressure, he did not tell them to seize power. He told their leaders: do not lord it over those entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock. In a world that measured greatness by the size of one's army, Peter offered a different political imagination entirely — one shaped not by domination but by the shepherd's patient, self-giving love.…