May 6, 2025 | Daniel L. Segraves, Ph.D

In preparation for a class I’ve been asked to teach, I’m reading Hidden Worldviews: Eight Cultural Stories That Shape Our Lives, by Steve Wilkins and Mark L. Sanford (IVP Academic).

The authors relate the story of Dominic, “a monk who founded the Dominican order, and his visit to Pope Innocent III in Rome in the thirteenth century. While giving Dominic a tour of the Vatican, in which its massive treasures were prominently displayed, the Pope said (in reference to Acts 3:6), ‘Peter [signifying the Pope] can no longer say, “Silver and gold have I none.”’ Dominic responded, ‘Neither can he say, “Rise and walk.”’ Dominic’s point is that when we value the types of power available through wealth, we also devalue power of a different, and more important, sort.”

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