A Conspiracy Rules Our World!
The nutty conspiracy theories filling the airwaves and cyberspace these days though wrong in so any ways about so many things are right about one thing. And it’s a thing we desperately need to hear in this country. What is that one thing? C S. Lewis tells us better than I can: “ Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. ” [1] Christianity is the great conspiracy that runs the world! Through all the ages and in all the spaces of this world followers of the risen Jesus have been engaged, as Lewis put it, “in a great campaign of sabotage” against God’s Enemy. And it’s not just Christianity. The Jews were God’s first agents of what John Howard Yoder called “t...