How Paul Worked to Overcome Slavery

It just might be longer than the book of Philemon itself (which is only 25 verses), but this article by John Piper shows how Paul does eleven things to undermine slavery in this short letter.

The historic and contemporary reality of slavery is never far away from how we think about the Bible. Instead of a frontal attack on the culturally pervasive institution of slavery in his day, Paul took another approach, for example, in his letter to Philemon.