The problem with our sense of “where the problem is” is that we are like the people of Gadara.  When you ask, “Where is evil?” they would point to “that man over there.”  We’re pretty sure the problem is “out there” somewhere—bad people, bad institutions, bad laws, bad luck.  But Jesus in the gospels knew the truth—if evil lives out through our social structures, it is birthed in the human heart.  Evil, as Walter Wink puts it, has no existence apart from dwelling within and among us humans. Support the show