Both claims — that the rooms where lawyers work are holy ground, and that the weapons we fight with there must be spiritual rather than fleshly — are easy to admire from a distance and hard to live by 9:00 on a Tuesday morning. Michael Kelley on how to walk it out.
Every lawyer knows the feeling of stepping into someone else’s chaos. Michael Kelley on why the rooms where lawyers work — the mediation table, the deposition, the boardroom — can be holy ground, and what that asks of the Christian lawyer.
If legal conflict is holy ground, how then should a Christian lawyer practice? Michael Kelley on the two errors to reject — passivity and domination — and on the difference between a lawful tool and a fleshly weapon.