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Category Archives: Social justice
Like Father, Like Children: God’s Compassion Shows Up In His Offspring
Compassion, often referred to today as “social justice,” has an ancient derivation: it comes from God. Marvin Olasky, editor in chief of WORLD Magazine, wrote The Tragedy of American Compassion in 1994. We have been reflecting on Olaskay’s seven principles, … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Ethics, Social justice
Tagged Christianity, compassion, ecce homo, God
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“SOCIAL JUSTICE” Means Freedom to Work
The phrase “Right to Work” has received lots of press lately. And the Bible has something important to say about work. In fact, God’s view of work is related to His view of compassion. In two recent posts we highlighted … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Compassion, Culture, Freedom, Social justice
Tagged Business, creator, Freedom, work
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Social Justice Requires Both a Warm Heart and a Clear Head
Social justice (aka compassion) arises from a warm heart and matures in a clear head. In a recent post we highlighted two of seven principles of compassion (Affiliation and Bonding) identified by Marvin Olasky in The Tragedy of American Compassion. … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, Poverty, social justice, tough love
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Democratic Capitalism: Friend of Social Justice
We’ve written often about the true nature of compassion, or social justice. The DNA believes that social justice means loving like God does. It includes a call to suffering with one’s poor neighbors. As we have written (here and here and here), this is … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Development, Social justice
Tagged Bible, Capitalism, milton friedman, social justice
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COMPASSION: The Noun That Used to Be a Verb
Compassion doesn’t mean what it used to. Not in Western cultures, at least. One hundred fifty years ago compassion was a verb. The term meant “to compassionate, i.e., to join with in passion.”[1] Today, compassion is a noun. It has been … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Poverty, Social justice
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PEOPLE, not Governments, Are Responsible for Social Justice
Recently I came across the following pithy quote from our friend, Udo Middelmann, of the Francis A Schaeffer Foundation. I share it here in view of our recent discussion on Social Justice: Social Justice is not a euphemism for Socialism … Continue reading
Social Justice, Community and Culture: A Final Reflection
Two of the key characteristics of social justice are community and culture. Social justice and community As we saw earlier Roman Catholic scholars, Aquinas, Taparali, and Pope Leo IIIX understood that a woman or man does not stand alone; every … Continue reading
Why So Much Heat About Social Justice? Part 2
In our previous post we discussed the heat in discussions of social justice. Today we want to answer the question, Where does the heat come from? In a word, the heat comes from different sacred belief systems. One’s paradigm of … Continue reading
Why So Much Heat Around Discussions of Social Justice?
All people of good will, who have a heart of the poor and vulnerable, who are appalled by the corruption and injustice they see, who are aghast at the slaughtering of females on the scale of a holocaust, who grieve … Continue reading
Is Social Justice About Equality or Equity?
The goal of some in the social justice discussion is for people to be equal. What does this mean and what does it entail? The U.S. Declaration of Independence sets the high water mark for any civilization: “We hold these … Continue reading
