Equity, Not Equality, Must Be the Goal, the Rule, and the Finality of All Laws
Equity must be the goal, the rule, and the finality of all laws
A Few Words About Justice
Against the backdrop of various media reports concerning the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, and the subsequent manifold calls that his alleged killers be brought to justice, as a black Christian who has been following this developing story in the background, I felt compelled to offer the following unsolicited commentary. I am of the opinion that the church must recover a biblical understanding of both justice and injustice so that each is discerned objectively—as God’s Word defines those terms—by God’s people through the universal lens of the Imago Dei (Image of God) so that, consequently, any indignation we may feel over a perceived injustice is borne from a purely righteous…