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Slave wages.(Living by the Word)

From: The Christian Century  |  Date: 6/14/2005  |  Author: O'Brien, Bill

Sunday, June 26 Romans 6:12-23; Matthew 10:40-42

IN 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation marked the beginning of the end of slavery. The new air of freedom brought an unintoxicated euphoria. But a century later, freedom was redefined, this time as an absence of responsibility. The new air of license was inhaled and produced an intoxicated forgetfulness of anything that smacked of authoritarian inhibitions or paralyzing parameters.

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