Author: Lazarus Abboud
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The Christ Who Did Not Apply His Commandment.
Christ was meek without romanticism, and humble without submission. Loving your enemy does not mean offering them roses while they hold a knife, nor does it mean erasing the boundaries that protect you from their harm. Rather, it means refusing to turn their enmity toward you into your enmity toward them, and not becoming a…
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Mansour Rahbani’s Christ is a savior who does not save.
Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin in the theater of the Rahbani Brothers. For them, creativity was never merely about innovation, but rather the ability to liberate—to free people from constraints. Anything short of that becomes rumination, repetition of the old, or recycling the narrative. The power of their plays was…