What do you make of powers and principalities ensconced within institutions? (Walter Wink argues that the form of life that seems to extend beyond them that you describe is in fact a spiritual reality, though he is skeptical that they are a personal spiritual reality). Since angels are creatures, are demons also creatures? And are all spiritual beings either all-good or all-bad?
I strongly recommend The Book of Strange New Things over The Sparrow. The Sparrow is quite long and its point seems to be "Don't try to do anything good for other people because it might backfire."
What do you make of powers and principalities ensconced within institutions? (Walter Wink argues that the form of life that seems to extend beyond them that you describe is in fact a spiritual reality, though he is skeptical that they are a personal spiritual reality). Since angels are creatures, are demons also creatures? And are all spiritual beings either all-good or all-bad?
Great fun. Re: alien evangelism, have you read the Sparrow and The Book of Strange New Things?
I haven't!- I struggle reading anything dystopian, my interests run to philosophy or literary novels set on farms. But I'll give it a shot.
they're both well worth it, in different ways. And less dystopian, more, how shall we think of alien evangelism :)
I strongly recommend The Book of Strange New Things over The Sparrow. The Sparrow is quite long and its point seems to be "Don't try to do anything good for other people because it might backfire."
Baptizing aliens reminded me of this classic Mere O piece: https://mereorthodoxy.com/baby-yoda-explains-christian-denominations/