Johnny Ramírez-Johnson is a professor of anthropology at Fuller Theological Seminary.
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Are We Safer Now? Security and Mercy in God's Law
02-13-2017
Safety is defined in the nineteenth chapter of Leviticus as abiding in God’s sense of justice —“not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.” Justice is love and love is behaving out of fairness to all — even those we see as a risk. We cannot expect to be in safety unless we treat others as we wish them to treat us.