In 1963 Bob Dylan sang "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Mississippi by the Klan. Though it is a protest song, what is important to note is that Dylan astutely blames not the shooter, nor even the Klan, but "they" who run and rule the "game" of how society is structured and for whose benefit. He's put his finger on what the Bible calls "the principalities and powers." These mysterious beings/powers (however we describe/define them)were created by God to establish and maintain conditions for the flourishing of human life. These powers rebelled against God thus diminishing and damaging the very conditions and structures under which we were to live and sought to acculturate us to these diminished/damaged conditions as the normal conditions of life, just the "way things are." The church's job, according to Paul in Ephesians 3:11 is to announce to these powers that with the de...
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