There are many courageous Christians in our world today. Some of them are leaders of Christ’s church here in America. Yet there remains a terrible need for those who, with loving hearts, stand firmly and clearly upon the truth of God in these topsy-turvy times.
Moses relays this message from God to his chosen people. “You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless” (Exodus 22:22-24).
Eric Metaxas has written biographies of William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this year Mr. Metaxas said that in the world of William Wilberforce black Africans were considered less than fully human and in the world of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Jews were the ones thought of in that same way. Then he asked the question: “What group is it that we consider less than fully human today?”
The pages of the Religious Herald are limited. You are required to make choices, perhaps difficult choices, about what you print. You may not feel compelled to address the interface of faith and politics. However, when you do decide to say something about it, as you did in the March 5 edition, by what scale of importance can you possibly ignore the issue of abortion? In Mr. White’s editorial he was pondering how easy it is to get caught up in the dominant bias of your own time and place. Indeed it is.
All of us who belong to Jesus, leaders and pew sitters both, will one day stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Do we really think that the blood of more than 50 million (fatherless?) little children will not be crying out from the ground?
Scott Kleinknecht, Colonial Beach, Va.