12 Years a Slave: The Fallenness That Enables Oppression - Black Church (Genesis 3)
In the heart-wrenching film *12 Years a Slave*, we meet Solomon Northup, a free man who is violently uprooted from his life in New York...
This is movie analogies on structural sin and oppression for adults, drawing on Genesis 3. It carries an emotional tone of grief, lament and hope.
In the heart-wrenching film 12 Years a Slave, we meet Solomon Northup, a free man who is violently uprooted from his life in New York and thrust into the hellish world of chattel slavery. As Solomon endures unimaginable cruelty, we witness something profoundly disturbing: slaveholders wield Scripture like a sword, contorting the Word of God to justify their monstrous actions.…
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