" Aligning our identity to the king—over the country—is radically different. Only when we’re secure in our identity as children of the coming King, who will right all wrongs, can we read the news for the sake of our neighbors’ needs instead of for the sake of our own inadequacy. Only then are we able to repent, and not just blame another side. When we’re Christians first we can finally be good citizens second. That’s the only way we can avoid being, in the words of Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr., either uncritical lovers of country or loveless critics of country. But when we’re citizens of heaven first, we finally become loving critics of country next—which is the truest kind of patriotism. "

― Justin Whitmel Earley , The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction