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“A former professor of mine referred to it like this: there is power and there is power-over. There is power in love, in truth, in sacrifice; and there is power in putting someone else down. The power of cooperation versus the power of conflict. In this great story of a non-coercive God accompanying and guiding us through the ages, one of the central challenges has always been how to interpret the holy power of God without confusing it with the human invention of power-over.”