In the recent past, there has been an attitude that Christians should be the silent minority (even though there are more people in the United States professing to be Christian than not) and that we should be neither seen nor heard. This not only encompasses our daily lives but public and political as well.

That attitude is as far from the ethics established by Jesus, and the foundation of the “Church”, as is possible!  True, the moral principle of “turning the other cheek” is well known and, quite frankly, has been used against the Church when retaliation would be the call of the hour. We are expected to stand and let physical or verbal “blows” bounce off us, without comment or action.