a gospel approach to anti-racism, anti-poverty
Tuesday 16 September 2008 at 11:32 pmIn mulling over both David’s e-mail and our discussion today I thought it helpful to think back to more foundational things in approaching the issue of diversity and justice, or anti-racism and anti-poverty.
Part of why I think it is important to go back to the roots of these things in the gospel is because these are also currently cultural values that have been largely embraced in our society. I think that is in general a good thing, but I think we need to take some care with these values in society because I think their rooted motivational structures tend to run in different ways, usually in service of other agendas with the tools of common virtue rather than true virtue.
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