My first piece in Christ and Pop Culture discussed the recent NBC comedy called “The Good Place.” The show is a rather profound investigation of what it means to be truly good.
It can be difficult to tease out where bondedness ends and rights begin—the place we stop saying “Who is my neighbor?” and enter into “These are my rights!” The question of “Who is my neighbor?” is a question of what is owed, and it’s full of theological and ethical implications. In essence, “What are my rights?” is private and individual. “What do we owe one another?” is personal and communal. It’s to shift from “What do I deserve?” to “What is best for us?”
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