Category: Justice

“We are not blind too, are we?” John 9:40 “Jesus was right about those men who crucified him. They knew not what they did. They were inflicted by a terrible blindness.”—Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Consider the Pharisee. In the earliest Gospels, the Pharisee is Christ’s starkest…

Reading this verdict, I feel a rush of surprise, a shock that’s too startled to be relief. Injustice towards the powerful is mostly assumed. Our systems are set up to protect men from the onslaught of women. This has been true since even before the days of Artemisia Gentileschi, who painted the rage of the…