Charles Elliott's Praying the Kingdom is a gem, a profoundly wise yet eminently practical book to be chewed. digested, re-read meditated. It represents wisdom and reflected experience by a social activist and man of prayer, a mature spirituality for politics which goes beyond clichés about conscientization to the realm of deep conversation. If the main obstacles of well-meaning first-world Christians to embracing the justice of the Kingdom of God lie in quilt and a sense of powerlessness. Elllott shows how ge genuinely Christian political spirituality can transform this guilt and power lessness into a fundamental reordering of values, perceptions and worldviews as we touch the essence of true prayer, standing in all our weakness before God on the side of the poor and offering our psychic energies to confront evil in ourselves and in the cosmos.