Hi Colleen. Yes, this is a very difficult area. Love doesn’t and shouldn’t make us blind to the terrible things that people do to each other. I think though that love goes on a journey with people, trying to understand why they are trapped in hateful behaviours. And love remembers that we love because God first loved us, and that just as God’s love won us over, so too, overtime our love might win others over.

But there is a place for righteous anger – Jesus showed it when he cleared the temple. Righteous anger is almost always anger on behalf of another.