What is the best test of the common good? How do you know if you have a society characterized by the flourishing of persons in community? Andy Crouch argues that we should look at the flourishing of the most vulnerable.
“There are all kinds of conditions in which the affluent, privileged, powerful majority can flourish,” notes Crouch in his talk at QIdeas in Nashville. “But the far more demanding test in any society is the fate of the most vulnerable—the youngest, the oldest, the most frail, the most marginalized.”
Crouch contends that “If you care about the flourishing of persons—especially the vulnerable in community—you will care about freedom of religion.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-rq3cI5uo
(Via: Justin Taylor)
