Dennis Hamm, S. J. has an informative reflection on leadership and power. He contrasts power in the empire to the power Jesus envisioned for the Kingdom

(http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/052913.html).

Just happens that my study of mythology led me to Hindu mythology from India. Indian mythology tends to view creation and destruction in cycles as alternating in the eternal cycle. History cycles through various ages. Professor Voth tells us:

The first age is always a golden age in which humans need no shelters; trees provide them with food and clothing and they don’t have to work for it. People are happy and they spend their time in meditation and observing dharma; dharma is that Hindi word that means do whatever is appropriate to your station in life. Continue reading →