despite the shiny, heroic, and deathless allure of the principalities and powers, we can’t escape death by serving them and sacrificing for them. Nor can we escape death by internalizing the spirituality of these powers. No matter where we turn in the world, the spirituality of death is all we will find. Death saturates our work, our worldview, our identity. Everything is held in bondage by our slavery to the fear of death.
