TGR carries the second installment of my series on theologies of public life:

This implies that the church will not seriously theologize social spaces like business and government, or fix the blind spots in its theology of the church and the home, until it becomes aware of the public/non-public distinction and theologizes that. To do faith and work with people who work in businesses, we need a theology of business; but in order to have a theology of business, we need a theology of what makes a business a public institution in a way that a church or a home is not. The public-ness of business as a social space is what summons the church to think in new and more difficult ways about how to theologize it, and the importance of theologizing it.

Let me know what you think!