Steve Turtell

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Why, on one hand, do individuals or groups who set out with the highest ideals of distributive justice so often end up in bloody slaughter—especially of “the unjust”? Why, on the other hand, is “love” a word so empty of content that it can be used at the same time for our favorite candy bar and the soulmate of our life, for our favorite sports team and God Almighty? It is because we have separated what cannot be separated if each term is to retain its full power. Justice without love may end in brutality, but love without justice must end in banality. Love empowers justice,
How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation
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