While many activists, leaders, and Christians have raised their voices in opposition, many have not. And this is not a critique from outside evangelicalism. I write as an evangelical myself, formed by its virtues, shaped by its institutions, and still committed to its core convictions. Yet evangelicalism has forgotten much of its social ethic.

When asked to offer a prayer in memory of those who had died at Mauthausen concentration camp, I said, “We are standing today on ground that is soaked in blood.”

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If Jesus was here today, the same unjust forces that nailed him to a cross for challenging their legitimacy would do it again. For he would be among the most vigorous and uncompromising figures to preach and remonstrate against the evil machinations of this nation’s ruling regime.

God alone brings the hope beyond hope: life despite death, life abundant, and a remarkable word called resurrection.