Most important, we can't preach justice to others without practicing it ourselves.
Francis referred indirectly, but plainly, to Abdel Fattah Egyptsi, Egypt's authoritarian President, saying, "History does not forgive those who preach justice but then practice injustice.
Beginning in the nineteen-nineties, a local forerunner of the Pakistani Taliban gained support by preaching justice, fairness, and virtue.
Reconciliation is not naturally Aristide's forte; in fact, he gained the Haitian people's respect and undying affection when he was a parish priest precisely because he preached justice to the exclusion of reconciliation.
Bishops preach social justice but fail to practice it within the church.
It's a congregation that does not merely preach social justice but acts it out each day, through ministries ranging from housing the homeless to reaching out to those with HIV/AIDS.
Conservative believers fixate on the culture wars, religious liberals preach social justice, and neither leaves room for what should be a central focus of religion — the quest for the numinous, the pursuit of the unnamable, the tremor of bliss and the dark night of the soul.
Where: Sacred Space Tent, Dewey Square, Boston When: Tuesday, Oct. 18, 4 p.m. Detroit preacher and Harvard Divinity prof Charles Adams to preach some justice at Occupy Boston.
Dear Glenn, Since I challenged your claim that "social justice" was a code word for Communism and Nazism, and your calling on Christians to leave their churches if their pastors preach social justice, you have begun to modify what you are saying -- and I appreciate that.
Not only were their non-Muslim subjects made disaffected and rebellious, but even Muslims came to question Aurangzeb's departure from the Koranic ideal that preaches justice for all.
Over the past decade Rwanda has begun to put itself together again - the Tutsi government preaches justice and reconciliation, Hutu and Tutsi are again living side by side, and Hutu killers confess their sins at gacaca, local trials in which the community passes judgment.
