Why social justice is not Christian
Oh, I don't believe that title. It's clickbait. I admit it. Mea culpa.
Justice matters, deeply and significantly, for anyone who cares about what Jesus taught or about the explicitly stated intent of Torah. It's just that ... well ... social justice does not provide the teleological framework that integrates me existentially. Or to put that a less willfully obfuscatory way, it is not my purpose. It is not my goal. It just isn't.
As a Christian who grew up in a progressive, justice-oriented faith community—one that I still love, and that still does wonderful work in the world—that realization has come slowly and with difficulty. I've resisted it, on many levels, because the injustices of our culture are so deep and insidious.
