The Church speaks the whole language when it includes. It was intended, by Jesus, to be an alternative social vision. It is what Scripture scholar Marcus Borg called Jesus’ “politics of compassion,” which was counterposed to the politics of purity and holiness. Our demand that things change, and this “social vision” become reality, must be born from our compassion and not our contempt. It’s mercy that softens us to always find room in our hearts. Turns out, this supple mercy can be kryptonite to how we sometimes see things in the Church.
