Quiet Time: A Better Political Imagination

Look at the company Jesus kept in Luke 8. There's Joanna — wife of Chuza, the man who managed Herod's household budget. She knew the marble floors of the palace, the political maneuvering, the way empire operates from the inside. And she walked away from that table to follow a homeless rabbi through dusty Galilean villages. That's not naïveté. That's a woman who saw both worlds and chose the one where power flows downward.…