Making Goodness Fashionable
One of the great figures of civic leadership and Christian ministry is William Wilberforce. He is world-renowned for leading the charge to abolish the slave trade, which was motivated by his faith in Jesus.
One of the other aims of Wilberforce's life was to "make goodness fashionable". I love that phrase! Most of us don't understand how unfashionable goodness was in 18th-century England. This was a time of widespread drunkenness of both rich and poor, of political graft and rampant prostitution. As Eric Metaxas writes, this was "a time of open debauchery in every sphere of the culture".
Making goodness fashionable was about as (un)popular then as it is now. But it is just as needed now as it was then. Can I encourage you to do all you can to make goodness fashionable?
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Agreed with gratitude to Karl Faase.
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