We want love, but we want to achieve it through a method that is foreign and antithetical to it. But love is not the fruit of power to control. Love presses us into vulnerability. Love calls us to receive others different from ourselves, and it calls our stereotypes and bigotry into account. Love calls us to difficult things like forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace. The way of loving your enemies constructs a specific kind of resistance to evil. Love is a power that simultaneously calls us into our weakness and brings evil out of the darkness and into the light. Love demands courage and
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