I’ve posted over on the Political Theology blog again, this time on the politics of Pentecost:
The Church created at Pentecost is a dramatic contrast to the project of Babel and all attempts to repeat it. Rather than gathering all together within an imposed imperial uniformity and polity, the Church of Pentecost is scattered abroad, where it freely traverses all human differences with its message and identity. Dispersed throughout the world and its peoples, the unity of the Church represents God’s achievement and prerogative against the hubris of empires. Present within all nations, yet belonging to none, God’s worldwide kingdom cannot be contained, controlled, circumscribed, replicated, or assimilated by any other power.
Read the whole thing here.
Alastair's Adversaria 
Good stuff, Alistair. I wonder, have you read Jacques Ellul’s ‘The Meaning of the City’? It’s one of the best books I’ve read that touches on similar themes.
No, I haven’t. I’ll have to get my hands on a copy.