In the column linked above (click on the image to read the column) the author praises a married couple for their social work.  The husband is a doctor who matured into a deep Christian faith that became increasingly public.  He and his wife did much to promote family life and marriage.  I’ve met many similar couples over my years of work in politics.  And I am also, like the author, grateful for their witness.

Referring to the familiar passage about Sodom in Genesis 18 Francis X Maier, the column’s author, observes, “Betty and Les aren’t alone; they’re simply two good people among not merely fifty or thirty or ten other good men and women, but rather millions of ‘ordinary’ others who still, quietly but faithfully, provide the remaining leaven of virtue in everyday American life. That’s a source of hope. It needs to be fed with courage and zeal. Which means that we need to wake up and live our Christian faith as an urgent, salvific mission; a matter with eternal import.”

Amen and amen.  We Christians must live our Christian faith as an “urgent, salvific mission; a matter with eternal import.”