To neglect to pursue the social sores of our own time, to omit taking these kinds of public steps in a world of growing populations and evermore creeping destitution, and yet to go on declaring ourselves to be spiritual people who are “protectors of the poor” has got to be spiritual game playing. Jesus goes on asking every generation unremittingly, “And you, what will you do?” We cannot see injustice and say nothing, do nothing. Not if we are really to be authentically spiritual rather than simply pious actors in the game called “church.”
