A Deeper Country

A Deeper Country is part of the Spirituality and Society series, which explores how Christian spirituality shapes our inner life and calls us into courageous engagement with the world. In this volume, the question of allegiance comes to the centre. Amid authoritarianism, partisan certainty, and the algorithmic shaping of the soul, the book points to the deeper country waiting underneath them all.

All the chapters were previously published in Graham's substack, Spirituality and Society with Hilly. Through reflections on America's drift toward authoritarianism, Christian nationalism and the captured cross, political homelessness in a polarized age, justice and the common good in Australia, the formation of the soul in the age of artificial intelligence, the long road out of addiction, parenting with less noise, and the future of a Western church in decline, the book asks what it means to live as people of the kingdom when the empires are loud and the algorithms are louder.

This is a summons to remember our true citizenship: to follow the One whose throne is shaped like a cross, to belong to a country whose borders aren't shaped like a flag, and to walk the patient, narrow road that leads home.

Features of this Book

• Christian witness in a time of authoritarianism
• Resisting the algorithmic shaping of the soul
• Justice, belonging, and the common good
• Contemplative resistance to political polarization
• The future of the Western church