What’s not safe and what’s not easy is to pull those stories into our present context and take the imaginative leap to be Daniel in the lion’s den, to be Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, to be Jewish exiles on Babylon’s Main Street. What’s not easy or safe is to ask what it means to be a Christian in a culture that doesn’t want you to actually live according to the Jesus way. In a culture that may wear a thin veneer of Christian civic religion but in truth venerates Mars and Mammon, what does it look like to maintain fidelity to the Prince of Peace who says you cannot
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