from love to justice

Read the bluntness of this. This is the GOP establishment talking to itself. And the Republican pollster who arguably knows more about the politics of the gay issue than anyone else (how else to explain the Ohio campaign of 2004?) is advising them in no uncertain terms that they need to evolve and fast, if they’re not going to damage their brand for an entire generation:

Governed by this logic, the Obama administration left for later the crafting of a new set of rules. It left the nitty-gritty to Congress, which is something like handing your tax return and a six-pack of Corona to your 11-year-old. The subsequent orgy of lobbying delivered the grotesque Dodd-Frank reform law, and entrusted the details to a bunch of regulatory agencies. We are still waiting for the details. Anyone who says we are now safer than before is surely paid to say such things.

In reality, the bulk of industrially produced grain crops goes to biofuels and confined animal feedlots rather than food for the 1 billion hungry. The call to double food production by 2050 only applies if we continue to prioritize the growing population of livestock and automobiles over hungry people.

The religion of Jesus is not mere creeds and doctrines, it is a life. The salvation of Jesus is not only of the individual, it is also for home, life, society, and mankind.

Mr. Kagawa, Japan has been utterly destroyed not because we had not a sufficient army, but rather because we had suffered the loss of a good standard of morality and engaged in war. If Japan should now seek to revenge itself against the Allied Forces, there would be wars going on permanently in the Pacific Zone. So we need a new standard of ethics, like that of Jesus Christ. Buddhism can never teach us to forgive our enemies; nor can Shintoism. Only Jesus Christ was able to love his enemies. Therefore, Mr. Kagawa, if Japan is to be revived we need Jesus Christ as the basis of our national life. Kindly assist me to put the love of Jesus Christ into the hearts of our people.

When 10,000,000 people lose their homes, you can’t be a pacifist. We had to defend ourselves.

Man did not fly to God to escape the world, but rather, God came to man to help build the world. This was Kagawa’s whole doctrine of incarnation and his persistent argument for building the Kingdom of God on earth.