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Nobody Knows Where the Power Is
San Francisco runs on the conviction that power is real, locatable, and worth chasing. This article traces that conviction from a British politician who spent his career looking for it, to the ancient city of Ephesus — another power center — where a first-century follower of Jesus named Paul discovered something unsettling: that the power he carried worked differently from the power everyone else was after. Drawing on the work of C.S. Lewis and the historical record of early Christianity, the article argues that the desire for control and the desire for genuine transformation are not the same thing — and that the latter tends to arrive through an open hand rather than a closed fist.
