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Continue reading →: Justice
It’s the most interesting thing, I think, when Christians talk about God’s justice. One of the first things people mention is the saying, “an eye for and eye”. This is found in the book of Leviticus. “Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in return: fracture for fracture,…
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Continue reading →: Hope
This week we are returning to one of Miroslav Volf‘s essays in his very good book, Against the Tide: Love in a time of petty dreams and persisting enmities. In his essay “Not Optimistic” Volf draws an important distinction between optimism and hope. While both hope and optimism have to…
