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In this week’s message, we listen to the remarkable 1865 letter of Jourdon Anderson, a man formerly enslaved who answered his old enslaver’s request to “come back to work” with wit, grace, and moral clarity. Paired with Paul’s short letter to Philemon, it becomes a conversation across centuries about what real reconciliation looks like—not niceness, not denial, but love with a backbone: love that tells the truth, demands change, and holds us accountable to the healing it proclaims.

Scripture References: Philemon 1:1-25

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