If I keep separating from whatever strikes me as flawed, whatever embarrasses me, I will eventually find myself an isolated misanthrope, hating humanity as a failed project. And I’d be ashamed of that too! As Evangelical theologian Francis Schaeffer often said, “If we demand perfection or nothing, we will have nothing.” So at the end of the day, we all face a similar problem: we can disassociate and re-associate with all kinds of groups and identities, but whatever we disassociate from, still, in the end, we are human. The human problem is still with us, and as professor Kate Bowler aptly puts
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