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The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War

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“Somewhere between the Great Commission and Sunday morning, we got distracted. We started believing that making disciples was something for the trained, the titled, the theologically credentialed. We handed the plow to the pastor and took a seat in the audience. And the harvest sat waiting in the field.”