“There are theologians, preachers and religious leaders, not a few, who think that the essential thing about Christianity is to clothe Christ with forms and formulas. They look with disdain upon those who actually follow Christ and toil and moil, motivated by brotherly love and passion to serve. . .They conceive pulpit religion to be much more refined than movements for the actual realizations of brotherly love among men. . The religion Jesus taught was diametrically the opposite of this. He set up no definitions about God, but taught the actual practical practice of love.”

— Kagawa,  Japanese missionary of the slums

Comment

Kagawa was a socialist and a Christian. He said he was a socialist because he was a Christian.  I respect this socialism, because it’s not funded by the state but came from his own heart and hands, his own sacrifice. That’s real charity. And it’s a world away from the comfortable lives of professional activists and foundations, however well intended.