The Daniel Option: America’s Vocation Between Crusade and Retreat - Providence
In-between crusading moralism and fatigued withdrawal, Christian realism charts a middle course in foreign policy that balances faithful witness with the recognition that America cannot solve all the world's problems
"If your political theology has no room for faithful work inside imperfect institutions, you will oscillate endlessly between messianism (politics must save) and monasticism (politics must vanish). Vocation offers a third posture: serve seriously without worshipping outcomes."