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James Cone on Love That Cannot Be Stolen - Progressive (Romans 8:38-39)

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"Nothing can separate us—not slavery, not lynching, not segregation, not mass incarceration. Powers and principalities have tried to convince Black folk that God does not love them. But nothing in all creation—no system, no ideology, no violence—can separate us from Christ's love." — James Cone. Progressive: love against systems.

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Romans 8:38-39

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