Every Monday in Citizenship Confusion, Alan Noble discusses how we confuse our heavenly citizenship with citizenship to the state, culture, and the world.
Most Christians feel the need or desire to standout, to differentiate themselves from the world, to show that they have a different and superior citizenship. One way some choose to do this is by wearing clothing or buying bumper stickers which explicitly identify us as Christians, conservatives, or at least those who support the Christian “worldview.” But not all citizenships are the same, and some kinds require distinct or particular methods of communicating or establishing citizenship.
In response to this, I wrote an article entitled Wearing Our Faith in February 2008. In this post, I question the ways Christians identify and label themselves in order to stand out as Christians. Is there any benefit to wearing T-shirts that identify us as Christians? How should we demonstrate our heavenly citizenship?
Alan Noble (Co-Founder/Editor) is a graduate student at Baylor University pursuing his Ph.D. in Contemporary American Literature. To feed himself and his wife, he teaches Freshman Composition at the university. In 2006, he graduated from Cal. State Bakersfield with a Master’s degree in English. In addition to studying, teaching, and writing, Alan enjoys watching college basketball (Go Bears!) and NBA games with his wife and daughter, and loves Star Wars. While not particularly good at making art of any kind, Alan has an intense interest in the arts and culture and how believers ought to interact with them to the glory of God and edification of others. Alan lives in Waco, Texas with his Math-loving wife, owl-loving daughter, and their no-longer-able-to-skateboard-because-of-an-injury English Bulldog, Gertrude.
Email: noble.noneuclidean [at] gmail [dot] com
