The Powers That Be, the Gift of Enemies, and #OWS by @KurtWillems

I was just thinking about Biblical themes that  conure up the present economic scenario,  and Occupy Wall Street movements.  I thought of Walter Wink and his series of books on “The Powers”,  and how we are face to face with those he identifies as “Principalities and Powers”,  which are the systems of “theis world”. These systems take on a life Continue Reading

Principalities and Powers

I was just reading something that mentioned a phrase I often heard used:  “So focused on heaven that they are of no earthly good”,  referring to how some spiritualities withdraw from any responsibility to suffering around them. It is a close relative,  I think,  to the “gnostics”,  which claim to eschew physicality and maintain a strict separation between one’s physical Continue Reading