We can learn a lot about what the story of the Passover has to do with Christians from our Jewish friends. An early twentieth-century British rabbi, Morris Joseph, put it well: "Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being." In his view it is "God's protest against unrighteousness, whether individual or national." The black church has used the text responsibly then in understanding it as a story about African Americans, as an affirmation of their chosenness and their value, as the promise of freedom and justice.
