Justice is nothing but love with legs. Justice is what love looks like when it takes social form.
When Serene Jones said that on Bill Moyers Journal on Friday, I knew I had to write a diary about the show (trancript here.) Jones is the first female head of Union Theological Seminary, the oldest nondenominational seminary in the United States. As Moyers said, it's "known around the world for applying a progressive Christian critique to politics, economics, and social justice." Jones previously spent 17 years on the faculty at Yale.
Also on the show were Gary Dorrien, the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, at Union Theological Seminary, and Cornell West, of Princeton, who is currently also team-teaching a course with Jones and Dorrien at UTS. They talked a good deal about religion, social justice and the political crisis of our day. They are a living reminder of just how far short Obama's politics falls compared to the prophetic calling of his pretended faith.
