Two Favorite Topics

As many of you know, two of my favorite topics are baseball and justice. It’s rare that I can connect the two, but a blog post from my friend Dean Anderson does just that. It’s a review of 42, the film about baseball great Jackie Robinson and the year he began to play in the major leagues as the first black player. As Dean points out, it came to be because of the particular sense of justice in both Robinson and the Dodgers GM Branch Rickey. In this fortunate case, the cause of justice accorded with winning. Which, according to the Bible, it always does in the long run. But, also according to the Bible, it does not necessarily do in the short run.

It’s a great, short post which includes a terrific quote from Martin Luther (though not about baseball–we’re still looking for that).