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Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask about Social Justice is unavailable, but you can change that!

God does not suggest, he commands that we do justice. Social justice is not optional for the Christian. All injustice affects others, so talking about justice that isn’t social is like talking about water that isn’t wet or a square with no right angles. But the Bible’s call to seek justice is not a call to superficial, kneejerk activism. We are not merely commanded to execute justice, but to...

it hard to write off Paul as a curmudgeon. As Jacques Maritain, originator of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said after World War II, “We must have faith in man. But we cannot.… The present world of man has been for us a revelation of evil; it has shattered our confidence.… Our vision of man has been covered over by the unforgettable image of the bloody ghosts in extermination camps.”2 It would be easy (and self-serving) to single out the Nazis, some who dropped Zyklon B canisters
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