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Rich Villodas: Faith and Justice Cannot Be Separated
Many Christians view justice as an optional lane of discipleship — meaningful for some people, maybe, but not essential for everyone. Prayer and Bible reading matter. But justice is different. Justice, in this framework, gets treated like a secondary concern, a specialized interest, or worse, a political distraction.That split has done some real damage.It’s created a version of faith that can talk endlessly about personal transformation while staying strangely quiet about public suffering.