How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
Stay if you can.
Iraq had well over a million Christians in 2003 and has perhaps a fifth of that now. The church's clergy have argued, publicly and at cost, that emigration is the one loss that cannot be reversed, and bishops have stayed in emptied cities. It is an ethic that asks people to accept risk, and Chaldeans in Michigan and California answer that it is easy to preach from a pulpit that is not the one being bombed.
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