How might one live the Christian faith within a culture that idealizes
and privileges Christianity while also relativizing it and making it
redundant? Arguing for a reconceptualization of the theology of the
cross and radical communal practices, the author explores some pervasive
dangers of America's new Christendom and provocatively imagines
alternatives to conventional Christianity—ones whereby the church
embodies an alternative politic, where it commits to cruciform
non-violence, appreciates gifts by giving them away, and knows its
boundaries well enough to learn from those on the other side.