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551 Power, Pacifism, & Being Consistently Pro-Life with Shane Claiborne

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The Early Church and Its Ethic of Life

Tor 2 Ian: I've always loved reading the early Christians. There's something just so fresh and energetic and innocent about this, you know, revolutionary movement of folks that were risking their lives to follow Jesus. They spoke out against gladiatorial games because they thought that was this sick cultural glamorization of violence. Even a lot of Christians I write about in the book that we would now kind of associate with the religious right,. like James Dobson and Jerry Falwell, many of them were really ambiguous on abortion.

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