The GDP per capita of the US is great enough to have free healthcare, free education, gun safety, free childcare, massive research funding, …….

but we have a military and oligarchs instead.

Notice how much small GDP countries do for their citizens.

Where do I find this playlist?

For people who identify as Christian, passages like this invite reflection. What does it mean to take the teachings of Christ seriously when the vulnerable bear the cost of policy, and how should Scripture shape our response when cruelty is justified in the name of law or order?

What’s especially unsettling is how easily a child’s vulnerability can disappear behind words like policy, enforcement, or legality. But Liam’s fear, confusion, and loss of stability are not abstractions—they are the consequences the passage warns against excusing.

It’s hard not to see this kind of trauma—separation, disorientation, loss of safety—as the kind of harm Matthew 18 is pointing toward, where a child’s sense of safety, stability, and ability to make sense of the world are disrupted.

This week, a five-year-old boy, Liam Ramos, was taken from Minnesota and flown to Texas during deportation enforcement. He didn’t choose this, couldn’t understand it, and had no agency in what was happening to him.

Then get to it.