To set God’s name to politics does not turn the scales any more than to say ‘now in God’s name I am going out to steal’, or – ‘in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I shall go hang myself. What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day...
Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world.
Conversion is a lifelong process of letting God remove the scales from our eyes so that we can more and more embrace the reality of God’s overwhelming love for us.
If you think of justice sitting blindfolded with a scale in her hand, you may have to stifle a yawn, but if you think of a black judge acquitting a white racist of a false murder charge it can give you gooseflesh.