Stop Taking Sides

Embrace the surprisingly simple solution to the division, anxiety, and fear that plague our discussions from politics to theology: stop taking sides.

Adam Mabry shows how to refuse to participate in tribalism by mapping out a way to hold in tension truths that we so often divide over. In this compelling, inspiring, and at times provocative book, Mabry walks through some of the hot-button issues for Christians today—sovereignty and responsibility; politics and kingdom; love and wrath; Word and Spirit. You’ll discover how our joy and our witness rest on us learning to hold to all that the Scriptures teach and growing in virtue as we do. You’ll see how we tend to pick a side and then lose sight of one truth to protect another. You’ll learn how to wrestle with all that the Scriptures say, to embrace mystery, to listen closely, and to speak with clarity.

And you’ll be invited to hold truths in tension—to stop taking sides.

1. Opening Credits
2. Introduction
3. Chapter 1: Sovereignty and Responsibility
4. Chapter 2: Divine Imagers and Deeply Flawed
5. Chapter 3: Word and Spirit and Tradition
6. Chapter 4: Us and Them
7. Chapter 5: Victory and Suffering
8. Chapter 6: Love and Wrath
9. Chapter 7: Politics and Kingdom
10. Chapter 8: Strong and Weak
11. Chapter 9: I and We
12. Epilogue and Acknowledgments
13. Closing Credits