Forgiveness is not ours

Listen to this conversation among religious leaders who talk about what forgiveness should look like in Charleston, S.C., where two weeks ago a young white man, espousing white supremacist ideology, shot and killed nine people studying their Bible at Emanuel AME Church. I appreciated everyone’s contribution to this conversation, but I am drawn to the …

Will the Supreme Court do the right thing this morning?

Or, as Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite asks in the Washington Post: Will the Supreme Court ruling on health care violate Jesus’s teaching? She writes: The “Good Samaritan,” in a well-known story told by Jesus (Luke 10:25-37), is the person who stops and cares for an injured man left by the side of the road. In this …