The Church's Role in Social Justice

I made a slight blunder that has been brought home to me by two Grove City College professors, Dr. Gary Scott Smith and Dr. J.D. Wyneken, in their article “The Church and the Social Gospel.” I failed to articulate the Church's role in promoting social justice in my recent article “The Social Gospel and Eternity.” Their question is, “Should churches and individual Christians seek to help people with material problems and social needs, remedy social ills, and improve social institutions?”

Open book thread: Literary witness

Read any good novels lately? Chuck Colson hopes that you have. Here's why.

Daily roundup

• "Cuba cracks down, detains 30 in Havana protest"
• "A Biblical View of Social Justice"
• "It's time to commit suicide, virtually"

The god within

Continue to pray

From George Mueller's Answers to Prayer:

Is Crack Worse than Cocaine?

Many are working to bring the disparity in sentencing between cocaine and crack to an end. Pharmacologically they are almost the exact same substance. Personally, I think the disparity should be reduced a bit, but I also think that community-based treatment for non-violent offenders should be used on a much larger scale.

Not with a Bang but a Game Show

When Stanley Milgram did this at Yale in 1961, he became a kind of pariah. Today, they become stars.

Daily roundup

• "Leprechauns"
• "'Come and walk among us'"
• "Your Backyard Mission"
• "Courts Struggle with Same-Sex Divorce"
• "Uncool People Need Jesus Too" (via The Line)
• "National 40 Days for Life Pro-Life Effort Up to 298 Babies Saved from Abortion"
• "How to save a friend from the brink"
• "Great Sex! Flat Abs! And Jesus!"