“Power” is a tricky word. In everyday usage, it can mean “authority to control” or “ability to coerce,” on the one hand.  On the other, the Gospel of the Crucified One clearly does not view such “power” as a gift of God.  “Power” can also mean the energy, impulse, dynamism necessary to effect change through love. I pray that rather than concentrating on how to wield coercive, controlling power, believers will reconnect with the power of the Gospel to change lives, families, communities, and entire societies.