Freedom That Looks Like a Towel and Basin

In Galatians 5:13, Paul writes that we were "called to freedom" — but then, in a move that should stop us in our tracks, he says to use that freedom to "become slaves to one another through love." The Greek word is douleuete — serve as a slave. Paul takes the most radical gift imaginable and bends it downward. Rachel Held Evans once wrote about finding church again among people who had every reason to leave it.…