Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us about Freedom

So I’m turning in my tambourine and exchanging it for a drum that I can pound with all my might because I have freedom songs shut up in my bones. I want to break the air like a Burundian drummer

together, we can defy the pharaohs of our day. But it will require us to trust one another during long and slow years, in moments when risk looms, and fear is at its peak. But

3. Relinquishment is a subtheme of the work of freedom. Why is the act of relinquishment almost always required in bringing liberation and freedom?

They dismantled hostilities through neighborliness.

Her investment of her time and energy in, and even the leveraging of her white privilege toward, the common good is what I call relational reparations.