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Paul’s letter to Philemon carries a strong message of breaking down social barriers and establishing new realities of conduct and fellowship. It is also a disturbing text that has been used to justify slavery. Though brief, Philemon requires close scrutiny. In this commentary Scot McKnight offers careful textual analysis of Philemon and brings the practice of modern slavery into conversation...

Three specific examples show the diversity and particularity of modern slavery: Thai Fishing Ships. Thailand’s fishing economy is the third largest in the world, which has created a massive need for cheap labor on the fishing ships. Because of accounts of brutal forced labor, such as sixty percent of the 2 million workers claim to have seen a captain kill a worker,141 the government created an oversight task force. This task force only raids registered ships, which is less than twenty percent of
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