This week we looked at Walter Wink's ideas on Principalities and Powers. A group of us went to a retreat that Wink spoke at more than 10 years ago in Saskatchewan, so it was interesting to return to his ideas. One of Wink's strengths is his acknowledgement that we are surrounded by Powers (similar to the archy idea from the previous week). In the Testament and perhaps up until the Enlightenment when rationality gained precedence over religion, these Powers were called angels, demons, principalities, powers and thrones. Wink contends that people had an understanding that everything that existed had some