“A Christian theology of policing must remember that the state is only a steward or caretaker of persons. It did not create them, and it does not own or define them. God is our creator, and he will have a word for those who attempt to mar the image of God in any person. We are being the Christians God called us to be when we remind the state of the limits of its power.”
Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2020, page 40.
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