The Donkey, the Elephant, or the Lamb?

Nov 9, 2022 by

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Review: ‘Truth Over Tribe’ by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon.

In 2017, Britain’s Tim Farron resigned from his post as Liberal Democrats party leader. Until then he’d followed his party’s position that favored expanding the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. Journalists and party members, knowing Farron is a Christian, kept asking him whether the Bible teaches that gay sex is sinful. He finally replied, “To be a leader, particularly of a progressive liberal party in 2017, and to live as a committed Christian and to hold faithful to the Bible’s teaching has felt impossible for me.”

Patrick Miller and Keith Simon’s Truth over Tribe emphasizes American politics in its subtitle: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant. It’s telling, therefore, that the United States doesn’t have a recent example of a party leader resigning so as to put Christ above the Democratic or Republican parties. The closest parallel might be Liz Cheney opposing Donald Trump and losing her Republican position and then her seat in Congress, but she didn’t do so on explicitly Christian grounds.

Truth over Tribe, therefore, is a good introduction to America’s relationship-fracturing tribalism that’s turning neighbor against neighbor and sometimes even parent against child. The problem, though, is many Christians agree abstractly that the Lamb should come first, but then say, in essence, “The Lamb is riding on the elephant” or “The Lamb is trotting next to the donkey.”

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