Be equipped. Be enlightened.
Be engaged.

When our son was seven months old, he was “asked” to play baby Jesus in our church’s nativity. A naturally smiley and social child, Jack imbued less of an angelic, sleeping baby Jesus and more of one that I had to constantly keep from lunging out of the manger.

I was recently in Portland, Oregon when a stranger approached me for assistance to feed himself and his son. The man said he had been on the streets for days, and people just walked by him without making eye contact, ignoring his existence as a human being.

In the United States, conscientious Christians can find many charitable organizations to which one can give both financially and in-kind:...