ONE REASON SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE LOST HEART TODAY IS THAT WE FEEL both confused and powerless. The forces against us are overwhelming, including consumerism, racism, militarism, individualism, patriarchy, and the corporate juggernaut. These “powers and principalities” (Ephesians 6:12) seem to be fully in control. We feel helpless to choose our own lives, much less a common life, or to see any overarching meaning in it all.
