As people of faith, hope, and love, how should Christians think about and engage our polarized and contentious political moment?

Congregations and individual Christians have by no means been immune to the forces of division and dread that accompany election season in our fractured society. These tensions present an urgent and crucial challenge for pastors seeking to faithfully lead their congregations. It’s difficult to imagine a more pressing issue for discipleship and Christian witness in our day––which is why the Center for Pastor Theologians selected politics as our theme for our 2024 conference.

Kingdom Politics, our ninth annual theology conference, was an event to help pastors, Christian leaders, students, and interested laypeople think theologically about politics in 2024 and beyond. This conference was not an exercise in uncritically commending or condemning various representatives of the kingdoms of this world. Rather, we considered how Christians can faithfully witness to the Gospel within the political structures that exist, while also pointing toward the ultimate reality of Christ’s kingdom that transcends those structures.

This conference was hosted at Calvary Memorial Church, just outside Chicago, on September 23–25. This was to create more space between the conference and Election Day, so that pastors and leaders can process and apply insights from the event for their congregations in the final weeks of the campaign season.

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