Reform Where You’re Planted

How Ordinary Christians Change the World

In unsettled times, people tend to fall into different camps: reactionaries, revolutionaries, and reformers. Reactionaries flee to the hills, circle the wagons, or start a cult. Revolutionaries demand change now, throwing up barricades in the streets of Paris and eventually chopping off heads. Reformers, though they may appear reactionary or even revolutionary, carry out the patient work of pursuing truth, goodness, and beauty in everything they do. It is reformers who inevitably affect, and eventually transform, societies and cultures, although the observable transformation may be limited to a city, village, neighborhood, or just a circle of friends.