Last night was “preaching the gospel” and this morning was “doing justice.” Both were good and I might comment more in detail later. This morning, in Keller’s explanation of what justice means, he pointed to differeing (“liberal”/”conservative”) explanations for what is wrong with poor children who are likely to commit crimes sooner or later. The conservative response he described as “family values”–the children aren’t raised with proper values. But the point in common with other models that would emphasize “structural” factors is that it is not the child’s fault.

What I found interesting about this was that my own political/economic concerns and feelings began to change dramatically when my first child was born. News stories about other children in other situations suddenly became important to me.