For years, the international community and human rights activists have campaigned for the freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s democracy leader and Nobel laureate. Watching her leave her house after 15 years and 20 days in detention was as momentous as the scenes of Nelson Mandela leaving a South African prison 20 years ago.

For philanthropists inspired by their Christian faith, don’t shrink from publicly identifying your cause with the moral and spiritual claims of the gospel.