The Kingdom of God, as Jesus proclaimed it, is not a comfortable idea. It belongs to the poor, the peacemakers, and the marginalized. It demands enemy love, racial justice, and the surrender of every lesser loyalty. For most of its American history, the church has found this Kingdom inconvenient - and has quietly replaced it with something more manageable: a Christianity that blesses the powerful, baptizes the nation, and waves a flag.
In The Kingdom and the Flag, Pastor Mick Finch calls the church back to the radical, world-upending Kingdom that Jesus actually proclaimed - and refuses to look away from the history of what happens when the church forgets whose Kingdom it belongs to.
