CHRISTIANS STAND UP TO GLENN BECK. According to Sojourners’ Jim Wallis, Glenn Beck has started a troubling battle with the nation's churches by calling social justice a code for communism and Nazism, and claiming that "social justice is a perversion of the Gospel."

If Beck had, from the beginning, made an argument for small government and private charity, none of us would have responded to him. But on his show this week he wrote on his blackboard: "My definition of social justice" is "the forced redistribution of wealth, with a hostility to individual property, under the guise of charity and/or justice." I doubt many churches in America would agree with that.

I should hope not. But the simple fact is that the progressive Left has co-opted the phrase “social justice” to mean exactly that. If Rev. Wallis wants it back, then he - and his religious brethren - should clearly, concisely, and precisely define the phrase as they wish it to be understood, and stop allowing it to be subverted.