It would take an ostrich to not be aware that the issue of race has been prominent in recent months in America.
The matter of race has been one that has troubled humanity itself down through the eons. Obviously, the ante-bellum slavery has left its own nefarious trail of dehumanisation, bitterness, and defensiveness, and at the same time other racial/racist attitudes pervade other cultures too.
The distinction that Paul addresses in Galatians 3.28 – primarily and most emo-tively between Jew and Gentile in the context of the letter to the Galatians, but also male and female, and slave and free – is one that had, at the time and still does have, a power to bring fear and hate in different but also hard to solve ways.
