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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 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
Posted in Compassion, Social justice
Tagged compassion, Poverty, social justice, tough love
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There is No True Social Justice Without Personal Relationship
In his book, The Tragedy of American Compassion, Marvin Olasky suggests seven marks of compassion. Taken together these add powerfully to our view and practice of biblical social justice. Social Justice and Affiliation The first mark is affiliation, defined by … Continue reading
A WORLD WITHOUT CHRIST is a World Without Compassion
Compassion didn’t come out of nowhere. It came to the world from God and His incarnate Son. Mercy is not to be found in Christless world. The standards of a fallen humanity include hardness of heart, cruelty, and malice. The Bible, … Continue reading
A LOVE Better Than Life
In two recent posts, (Compassion, the Noun That Used to be a Verb and Mom’s Compassion is Like God … and So is Dad’s) we examined some of the Bible’s key vocabulary about compassion. God himself is the author of … Continue reading
MOM’S Compassion is Like God .. And So Is Dad’s!
Our recent post, COMPASSION: The Noun That Used to Be a Verb, introduced some of the rich biblical vocabulary behind the English terms “compassion” and “social justice.” Why should we bother to study the biblical vocabulary? Because compassion is central … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged compassion, creator, social justice, womb
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Charity Like the God We Worship
It is a truism that we build societies in the image of the God we worship. The Psalmist put it this way: 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 16 They have mouths, … Continue reading
TRUE COMPASSION: Suffering Together With
“Compassion” has become one of a growing number of politicized words (like ‘access’ or ‘diversity’) whose meaning has been corrupted beyond redemption. So writes Thomas Sowell the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution of Stanford University. … Continue reading
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Tagged Clapham Sect, compassion, Good Samaritan, suffering, Zinzendorf
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Whatever Became of Compassion?
When I was in college I read Dr. Karl Menninger’s book Whatever Became of Sin? Menninger was one of the world’s leading psychiatrists and founder of the world-famous Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He wrote the book because he became … Continue reading
What Exactly Do You Mean By “Social Justice?”
The phrase “social justice” has made a surprising comeback within Evangelical circles in the past few years. But what exactly do people mean when they use this phrase? For some, it simply means helping the poor in general, but I’ve found that … Continue reading
