The article is about feeling "...politically isolated on the Tufts campus and abandoned even by other Christian groups..."
Throughout the New Testament, Jesus makes clear that "this world" is not our home. That the people "of" this world didn't recognize nor welcome Jesus, and the same type of people wouldn't recognize nor welcome future Christians.
Was Jesus politically embraced in His culture? Was Jesus embraced by other Jewish groups in his time?
The issue of how Christians don't "fit" with this temporal world is a very sweeping and generalized theme of the New Testament. It doesn't depend on which dictionary definition of a particular word you choose to point at. It's the concept that's important and the concept couldn't be more clear.
I wasn't saying I didn't understand what the article was saying. I was just making the point that from my point of view these people have their heads up their ass if they think ANY Christian can look around THIS world and NOT feel isolated and abandoned.
Mark W.