Why is the church responsible for so much injustice? Why are Christians such hypocrites? These two related questions have been raised by many skeptics and detractors.
Those questions, by the way, were not charges hurled at Christianity in the New Testament or the early centuries of the church. But after 2000 years of church history, spanning countless individuals, countries, and cultural contexts, we do have to deal with the fact that there have been times when “the church” seems to be linked with injustice and hypocrisy, rather than God’s justice and love.
The question is whether injustice is a “feature” or a “bug” in religion in general (as some atheists have charged) or in the Christian faith and the church in particular. And whether a life truly lived in union with Christ leads to more or less justice.
Join me this week as we take an honest look at this question addressed by Tim Keller in The Reason for God.
