Opening with Psalm 4 Chris uses the absurd rivalry between Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes to ask a serious question: how does love for something slowly curdle into hatred of whatever is on the other side? He traces that progression through Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and ELCA teaching — all of which independently arrive at the same answer from 1 John: God is love — and then names the real Buckeyes in the room: political parties, races, nationalities, and yes, Catholic vs. Protestant. From "an eye for an eye" in the desert to the Sermon on the Mount, he shows that God has always been teaching the same graduate-level course in enemy love, and that the only weapon that actually stops hate is the grace to follow the one who went to the cross for the people trying to kill him.

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