In the present day, the International Society for Human Rights estimates that 80% of all acts of religious persecution are perpetrated against Christians.
It is important to realize that the racial anti-Semitism which characterized Nazi Germany was not an invention of the National Socialists, but rather a radicalization of many social and religious factors which predated Hitler’s rise to power.
Justice, then, goes beyond laws and bears on every aspect of our interactions with other people in ways that few other virtues can.
Sigmund Freud once wrote that the idea of religion is “born from man’s need to make his helplessness tolerable.”
The problem for Christians is thus the problem of invisibility, which empire exacerbates, for in empire, that which is unsightly is exported from the collective imagination.
Dostoevsky told his wife that Job was one of the earliest books to make a “deep impression in [his] life,” and its influence on his work is far-reaching.
Once we realize the all-encompassing nature of God’s provision, there is no work that cannot be seen as a manifestation of God’s kindness to us, and therefore no work that should not spark our gratitude and joy.
