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As I was preparing the PowerPoint for my conference paper which I read yesterday, I looked for one that featured the famous quote from Yoda on the left. I didn\u2019t expect to find it\u00a0paired with a quote from Paul\u2019s letter to the Romans. It was interesting to see these two sets of texts brought into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":32359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,91],"tags":[720,1140,2443,5612,7250,8815,10537,11822,13989],"class_list":["post-32358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romans","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-apostle","tag-bible","tag-dark-side","tag-jedi","tag-meme","tag-paul","tag-romans","tag-star-wars","tag-yoda"],"yoast_head":"\n
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