Last month marked the start of Lent, a period of preparation in the Christian religion leading up to Easter, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. That made me wonder: What would Jesus see if he looked around today?
Few people have understood, as intuitively as Jesus did, that the way we look at people is intimately entwined with how we treat them. At the core of his ministry was a call to look at the world — and especially its most disadvantaged — with new eyes.
Think about charity, for example. The same gift to the same person can be an act of humble service by one person and a hollow gesture by another. One need only recall footage of Donald Trump lobbing tubes of paper towels to a crowd in San Juan, Puerto Rico — decimated just weeks earlier by Hurricane Maria — to know the difference.
