Jeff Jacoby is riding one of my favorite hobbyhorses. I’ve long argued that Scripture doesn’t tell us how politically to fill its moral injunctions. It certainly doesn’t command the creation of the modern welfare state. Reasonable believers ought to be able to disagree about how to help the poor, the widows, and the orphans.
Readers of this blog should certainly affirm that Jim Wallis and his associates are entitled to their opinions, entitled to voice them in the public square, and subject to searching critique.
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