My Grudging Respect for Mamdani's Rikers Visit

The American tradition of what Christians call the “corporal works of mercy” is robust. But prison ministry should be a reflex for Christians the world over. Jesus Himself explicitly commanded his followers to visit prisoners in Matthew 25, saying, “I was in prison, and you came to visit me,” and later in that chapter, “whatever you did for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”