Charity isn't a good substitute for justice

The idea that private money can solve our problems is very dangerous. Ultimately that's charity. Charity is a lovely thing. I'll never turn it down. But charity is not a substitute for systematic justice and equality.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

In the Christian obsessed with "social justice" it isn't easy to discern whether charity is flourishing or faith is expiring.