Freedom (S14 Episode21)

Friends, our Revisionist History series this Sunday has us re-examining what, until recently, had been a human universal in the world. Throughout the ages, this truth was self-evident: if you are on the winning side of war or hold great power, you get to own other people. What slavery has looked like over the centuries has varied, but behind each variation was a simple notion: people can be possessions.

Most of us are familiar with how Christians participated in, and at times perpetuated, this now damned institution. What we may not be familiar with is the driving force that put an end to it and gave us what are now the familiar terms “human rights” and “crimes against humanity.”