In this moving talk, Dr. Mason walks his listeners through a history of what he calls “toxic religion and toxic politics” and then proposes a way to reframe our understanding of religious violence by looking to the eternal kingdom of Jesus.
First delivered at TheoEd Atlanta in September 2022
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Music: Wake by LynneMusic, licensed through NeoSounds

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