People gather around similar interests. We create informal and formal networks of the “like-minded” who hope to influence direction and policy.

When Christians abandon the public square, what happens to community values? To ethics? To moral standards?

Aimed at exposing the culture of narcissism Garriott has witnessed in Washington, D.C., the book is intended as a cautionary tale to believers in power as well as those who serve or influence them.

Among Jesus’ original disciples, two were political opponents: Simon the Zealot, who believed government should remain hands-off. And Matthew, the government-employed tax collector.

While government is not our final destination, it is a God-given responsibility. Today, our country needs wisdom, which means it needs moral leaders, which means God’s people must enter the fray.

If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the call of Christ makes stranger ones still.