sacrificial

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Christian magazine Charisma further explained that throughout the Bible, “God commands His people to ‘defend the fatherless’ and to care for orphans with compassion, justice and sacrificial love.”

From Salon

The limits of human understanding are probed as a sacrificial figure challenges the inscrutable order of the universe.

From Los Angeles Times

“Having kids is sacrificial,” she told the New York Times last week.

From Salon

Some will see him now as a victim, a sacrificial lamb, a man who had the bravery to speak up about the problems the club faced and who got driven out because of it.

From BBC

Yet it resonates, albeit vague and unexplored, with biblical references to goat offerings and images of Jesus as a sacrificial lamb and the movie’s visual allusions to the goat-headed occult idol Baphomet.

From Los Angeles Times