Power is never as good or as clean or as simple as we think. The pioneer myth says that the one who wins, the one who survives gets all the glory and riches. At some point followers of Christ who live with such an ideology have to choose whether they believe it or if they might be willing to entertain the idea that they’ve been asked to lay down their rights and enter into a space that is neither barren nor empty nor pristine—the world, beautifully inhabited, full of people already here—and learn to live in it as neighbors instead of conquerors.
