The Theologian Who Moved Into the Slums

In 1909, twenty-one-year-old Toyohiko Kagawa walked out of his seminary dormitory in Kobe, Japan, and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums — the most desperate neighborhood in the city. He had been studying theology, reading scripture, praying earnestly. But Isaiah's words haunted him: "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice?"…