Tamed Cynic

Tamed Cynic

“When churches render God morally harmless, they abandon the public world to power.”

Robert Jenson on the Moral Corrosion of Our Politics

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Jason Micheli
Feb 05, 2026
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“The attempt to render Christianity morally harmless is, one fears, hopeless: it only makes Christianity so generally harmless as to be no sort of use to anyone. Thus if Western society should turn out to be irrevocably Christian or nothing, then in this connection also moder…

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