The Importance of Confronting Evil

"It's a big responsibility for you to be telling a kid who's facing true, potentially dangerous bullying to go back and love them," she says. "I think every one of the instances that Jesus is showing us in the Sermon on the Mount ... were very real realities that confronted evil, but not on its own terms." The idea that we can look in the face of Evelyn, say that you are better than the worst things that you do 'is a beautiful, beautiful story,' he adds.