The Writer and the Christian

“Cosmic justice is not simply a higher degree of traditional justice, it is a fundamentally different concept. Traditionally justice or injustice is characteristic of a process. A defendant in a criminal case would be said to have received justice if the trial were conducted as it should be, under fair rules and with the judge […]

However, unlike God at the dawn of Creation, we cannot simply say, “Let there be equality!” or “Let there be justice!” We must begin with the universe that we were born into and weight the costs of making any specific change in it to achieve a specific end. We cannot simply “do something” whenever we […]

This collective action is not limited to correcting the consequences of social decisions or other collective social action, but extends to mitigating as well the misfortunes of the physically and mentally disabled, for example. In other words, it seeks to mitigate and make more just the undeserved misfortunes arising from the cosmos, as well as […]

One of the few subjects on which we all seem to agree is the need for justice. But our agreement is only seeming because we mean such different things by the same word. Whatever moral principal each of us believes in, we call justice, so we are only talking in a circle when we say […]