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The Trail of Tears. Jeremiah 27:12.

Image: “The Flight of the Prisoners” by James Tissot, 1896, a painting of the people of Judah being driven from Jerusalem to Babylon, a Biblical “Trail of Tears.” Americans love the Bible. We print Bible verses on our tee shirts and coffee cups, stencil them on our walls, bumper-sticker them on our cars. The BibleContinue reading “The Trail of Tears. Jeremiah 27:12.”

Trafficking … in Humans. Jeremiah 52:27.

“Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land,” Jeremiah 52:27. Once an interesting, fresh phrase, “Human Trafficking” has been talked about so much in the last twenty years it may be in danger of becoming a cliché. But don’t tune out. The Bible has a great deal to say about what weContinue reading “Trafficking … in Humans. Jeremiah 52:27.”