More than twenty years ago, I attended a Christian Aid conference in London at which there were questions about the identity of the organization.  A person in the small group discussions asserted strongly that there was no need to play up the “Christian” identity as everyone present, Christian or not, had a desire for justice.

I struggled to explain that the Christian dimension brought with it not a desire for justice, but an absolute commandment for justice. For a Christian, to work for justice for the poor was not a …