The devotions

No Kings & the coming community

Even in small towns, we finally appear to ourselves

Apr 7 • Bryce Tolpen

The paradox of hypocrisy

A dialogue on public suspicion

Mar 24 • Bryce Tolpen

Designing for public freedom

John the Baptist can lead city planners off the grid

Mar 12 • Bryce Tolpen

Binding and loosing as Arendt’s twin faculties

Jesus gives us the keys to the public realm—and a covenantal basis for political theology

Mar 5 • Bryce Tolpen

Power & money switch polarity

How our oligarchy is giving way to authoritarianism

Feb 5 • Bryce Tolpen

Arendt: ICE's tactics create police states

ICE's lawlessness mirrors methods used in interwar Europe's mass deportations

Jan 26 • Bryce Tolpen

The invisible poor

Jesus & John Adams on poverty and public life

Jan 21 • Bryce Tolpen

Babel's bricks & the Bible's stones

Community building in an age of conformity

Jan 6 • Bryce Tolpen

Which neighborhood was neighbor?

Emerson, Jacobs & Jesus on creating "a nation of friends"

Dec 16, 2025 • Bryce Tolpen

Let bowling leagues run the show

"Functional representation" supports civic engagement

Nov 11, 2025 • Bryce Tolpen

The world God so loved

A necessarily political John 3:16

Oct 30, 2025 • Bryce Tolpen

Jesus is antisocial, so he parties

like the Romans aren't. even. there.

Oct 14, 2025 • Bryce Tolpen

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