“Christians should be known less as culture warriors and more as Good Samaritans who stop for battered neighbors, whether they are black, white, brown, male, female, gay, straight, rich, poor, old, young, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, atheist, capitalist, socialist, Republican, Democrat, near, far, tall, short, or smaller than a peanut.”
― Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
― Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
“Does our vision of social justice take any group-identity more seriously than our identities “in Adam” and “in Christ”? Does it buy into divisive propaganda? Does it replace love, peace, and patience with suspicion, division, and rage?”
― Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
― Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
“There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.”
― The Pilgrim's Progress
― The Pilgrim's Progress
“Idolatry happens when we make some good thing an ultimate thing, in which case it becomes a destructive thing. Given our tendency to make good things into ultimate things, it would be naive to think idolatry can’t creep into our justice pursuits.”
― Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
― Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
“I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man’s pity.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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