AKMA’s post about presenting at the gathering this week had me going to the Ekklesia site to check it out for more details. The whole gathering’s theme is on empire. I hope AKMA blogs some of it while he is there, if possible.
“No Other Gods” will focus on the opening commandments of the Decalogue (no other gods, no idols, no misuse of God’s name), given to Israel and the church to constitute our life as a political body. How should citizens of God’s commonwealth (Ephesians 2) understand and relate to the post-9/11 imperial designs and ambitions of American? When does respect for Caesar verge on having another god, committing idolatry, or taking the true God’s name in vain? How does the church keep the commandments in the face of the New American Empire?
