Today is the feast of the 7 Sorrows of Mary. I’m convinced that if she had an 8th and 9th sword pierce her heart, they would be abortion and child sex-slavery.
Regarding all forms of slavery, in fact, there are more slaves today than there were during the days of the Trans-Atlantic slave-trade. Today, there are between 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 slaves in the world. The numbers include such a wide range because of the hiddenness of the modern industry. We know that close to 100,000 of these slaves are child-sex-slaves here in the United States, most of whom were born here in the USA. Below is a Theology on Tap (1 hour) that I did in Colorado last year with my good friend, Loren Fardulis, an evangelical protestant who has done much on this front.
(If you don’t have time to listen, this single short letter contains more heartbreak and redemption than anything we say.)
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