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JR. Forasteros lives in Dallas, TX with his wife, Amanda. He is the author of Empathy for the Devil as well as multiple essays on preaching, church leadership and culture. He is a columnist at Sojourners and has bylines at Tor.com and Think Christian.

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“May this journey into the hearts of the Bible’s worst villains ultimately give you a clearer picture of the God in whose image both you and they are made. May we all be quicker to listen and slower to speak. Let us rush to show mercy and be slow to anger. Let us learn to see the full humanity of the other. And as we see, may the Spirit grant understanding, that we may find forgiveness just a breath away.”
― J.R. Forasteros, Empathy for the Devil: Finding Ourselves in the Villains of the Bible

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“We make villains out of what we don’t understand. We insist they could never be like us. But a closer examination reveals we are separated by degrees, not kind. We all have the same sickness. Evil queens and femme fatales, murderous brothers and crazy kings, betrayers and devils live among us—and they are us.”
― J.R. Forasteros, Empathy for the Devil: Finding Ourselves in the Villains of the Bible

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