Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe

by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

I am taking issue with what this list represents: what it means. I am taking issue with the presuppositions behind it. Specifically, 1) its underlying assumption that the Bible is not sufficient to address issues of race and/or justice and 2) its stated assumptions about the very nature of both race and justice. “[W]e are only talking in a circle when we say that we advocate justice, unless we specify just what conception of justice we have in mind,”17 writes Thomas Sowell in The Quest for Cosmic Justice. “This is especially so today, when so many advocate what they call ‘social justice’—often with great passion, but with no definition. All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?”