What do you desire? You can answer this in many ways. Maybe you desire connection and intimacy, to know and to be known deeply and truly. To be seen and loved and enjoyed and delighted in. We desire to have good friends, to be affirmed and approved, to be judged in the right, to do meaningful work, to make a difference, to create things that are beautiful and useful, to play and laugh and run and be free from every encumbrance, to be healthy and whole and stable and [...]

The belief in the existence of supernatural evil is central to Christianity. Beyond believing in its existence, Christians also believe in evil’s ongoing activity. The Scottish-born and Presbyterian theologian John Murray says that there are “unseen spiritual powers” behind all that is broken in the world. He says, “The arch-foe of the kingdom of God is not the visible powers arrayed against it; for behind these visible agents and manifestations of evil is the ingenuity, craft, malicious design, instigation and relentless activity of the devil and his ministers.” Murray [...]