Joseph Sunde is very kind to me in his post on Acton PowerBlog this morning. I especially appreciated this sentence:

If we cannot agree that politics and economic exchange are ripe spheres for “faithful presence,” in severe need of a Christian liberty that actually sets the captives free, we are missing something significant.

This shows how the two big issues he correctly identifies as central to my critique of To Change the World are connected. One is the category error of separating politics and economics from “culture,” and the other is the need for a more specifically theological and redemptively grounded approach to human culture. As I said in my recent post:

Common grace may or may not have been enough, culturally speaking, for Philemon; Onesimus needed more.