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Rev. Marcia Mount Shoop is an author, theologian, and pastor in Asheville, N.C. Her latest book is A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed: Race, Memory, and Eucharist in White Dominant Churches.
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From the Exodus to the Underground Railroad, Religion’s Legacy of Sanctuary
06-26-2017
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Even more difficult than the question of whether or not we are collectively willing to break the law is the question of whether we are ready to embody what a “culture of sanctuary” holistically invites us to be.