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For centuries the apostle Paul has been invoked to justify oppression—whether on behalf of slavery, to enforce unquestioned obedience to the state, to silence women, or to legitimate anti-Semitism. To interpret Paul is thus to set foot on a terrible battleground between spiritual forces. But as Neil Elliott argues, the struggle to liberate human beings from the power of Death requires “Liberating...

In August 1991, George Bush was basking in the glow of the highest approval ratings of his presidency in the wake of the Persian Gulf war. As a result, the peace activists, ministers, social workers, teachers, and other friends of the Sojourners community who gathered that month in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sojourners magazine needed more than a morale boost. In one workshop, Ched Myers of the American Friends Service Committee compared the war’s emotional
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