An Earnest Call to Gospel-Fuelled Compassion

This review has adopted a broad understanding of ‘mercy.’ Mercy is the withholding of punishment and is also popularly used to refer to the alleviation of suffering. Some readers may choose to reserve ‘mercy’ to describe the withholding of judgement, preferring to use ‘compassion’ or ‘kindness’ to denote what DiMarcangelo, and this review, refer to under the banner of mercy.    Amy DiMarcangelo’s Go and Do Likewise is an earnest call for Christians to be faithful doers of gospel-fuelled mercy. In many ways, it’s a book about perspective. How do we see others? How do we see what we’ve been...