“The masses of [people] live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed.”22 While the world may overlook the people who have their backs against the wall, these are precisely the people who have the most to teach us about justice. Unfortunately, the disinherited of the world often have the least access to formal education, book publishing, and other platforms that would enable their voices to be heard loudly across the nations. To compound the problem, many theologically conservative churches and academic institutions rarely look to the
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