Finding our way to great work, even in politics: Making peace with proximate justice
An encouraging and thoughtful article by Steve Garber, "Finding our way to great work, even in politics: Making peace with proximate justice"
Excerpts:
Proximate justice realizes that something is
better than nothing. It allows us to make peace with some justice, some
mercy, all the while realizing that it will only be in the new heaven
and new earth that we find all our longings finally fulfilled, that we
will see all of God's demands finally met. It is only then—there we
will see all of the conditions for human flourishing finally in place,
socially, economically, and politically...
To keep on keeping on in our callings is the
hard thing. Crucial to that ability is a theological vision shaped by
Scripture, one that gives us the cast of heart and mind to understand
the frailties of our own selves, as well as those of our societies.
And, still, to hope for the reality and meaning of the way things ought
to be in every area of life, from painting to play to politics, and on
and on and on.
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