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Melissa Flores-Bixler takes on the tough task for thee times: loving th enemy.She identifies the enemy in many forms including whiteness, Mammon as well as those who advocate for things that go against our values. She addresses anger and the tension with ones family. Written at the end of Trump’s first term, her insights are very relevant to the challenges we are facing today

The first chapter contains some good points. It also contains the fallacious assumption, incredibly common in recent years, that “unity” is intrinsically good, no matter between or among whom. Unity is often useful in accomplishing goals, but it is neither good nor bad in itself. The Bible never calls (instructs/tells/requires) Christians to be unified/united with anyone but each other.

As a pacifist Christian, I was excited to read this. Sadly, by page 15 the author has already villainized evangelicals, Trump voters (he stinks, but not all his voters deserve to become pariahs), and people against birth control (I’ve never met ONE, but the left loves to pretend they’re numerous). She does so in a dismissive way as if it’s obvious to all that those people are terrible. “Virtue-signaling”.