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I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.

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We have begun to address the issue of the killers of community, what keeps a good marriage from growing, what keeps friendships from growing.

And what we attempted to address is the reality of rage.

And again, I want to step back to rage and to say,

there are people who see rage as only expulsive,

that kind of hot, screaming, yelling, and indeed, that's rage.

But there are so many other ways to be rageful that actually kind of look socially more acceptable. Like, you know, to have sort of a

serious look in your eye with a kind of judgment, you know,

that group of people, you know, they suffer because they don't take seriously something

about the Word of God. And, you know, I guess what I'm getting at is rage can show itself in tattered blue jeans or in a tux.

It can be well-dressed and look at one level, quite acceptable.

But if we can begin to say rage is where there is judgment, build on contempt, that ultimately

denigrates another human being, then there's a whole lot of people operating.

And my experience, at least in the broader, what could be called evangelical community,

a lot of writing feels really to me very rageful, judgment, contempt-based,

and undermining both people and communities in a way that you go,

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