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Turn the Other Cheek: Compliant or Defiant? by Rev. Gretchen Weiss
March 23, 2014 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Turn the Other Cheek: Compliant or Defiant?
What if everything we’ve been taught about turning the other cheek was wrong? As our nation continues to mark the 50th anniversary of key civil rights milestones of the 1960s, it is a good time to take a fresh look at the Biblical basis for non-violent civil disobedience. Recent scholarship suggests Jesus was not advocating meek, mild, submissive acceptance in the face of injustice, but something else entirely.