NEW DELHI, Nov. 27 -- We live today in challenging times: complexities and contradictions abound everywhere and with them come a whole range of responses and reactions, of apathy and engagement. At the receiving end of brutal, insensitive systems and policies, which are also anti-people and dehumanising, are the poor and the marginalised, the excluded and the exploited and other vulnerable sections of society. There are painstaking efforts to legitimize all this in favour of the rich, powerful, crony capitalists, politicians and other vested interests.

Felix Wilfred in his new magnum opus For a Socially Engaged Faith provides compelling arguments as to why and how a socially engaged faith can not only address the grim realities but also ...