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A peace deal brings twenty hostages home—and releases thousands of violent offenders. We open with relief and outrage side by side, then step straight into the story of Tal Hartuv, a survivor who walked a mile with shattered bones after a machete attack, only to watch her attacker go free under the agreement. Her testimony cuts through abstraction and forces a harder question: what happens to justice when “peace” demands we forget the dead?

From there we widen the lens. We confront how hate disguises itself as strength, why a Christian conscience must oppose evil without becoming its mirror, and how media narratives can polish lies until they feel like truth. We talk about deception as a climate, not a headline—fertile ground for manipulation, fear, and the easy comfort of our own echo chambers. And then, unexpectedly, a countercurrent: students asking for rooms to pray, small circles growing into dozens, hope rebuilding in quiet corners where no camera is pointed.

The conversation moves into prophetic terrain—Jacob’s trouble, the refining of Israel, and the sifting of nations measured not by slogans but by mercy: food for the hungry, shelter for strangers, courage for the imprisoned. The parable of the sheep and the goats becomes more than a sermon; it becomes a standard for public life under pressure. We grapple with the cost of compassion when it collides with power, and we hold on to the promise of a future reign marked by justice, presence, and peace that outlasts headlines.

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