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Pillars Versus Platforms
- Mark argues modern society prizes platform living while traditional cultures prize pillars like elders who serve community.
- He frames pillars as supporting shared spaces and sustaining communal life against individual elevation.
Joseph As A Pillar In Exile
- The opening of Exodus hints back to Joseph's story as a model of faithful survival and flourishing in exile.
- Mark highlights that Joseph's faithfulness becomes a pillar for later deliverance of Israel.
Unseen Orders Shape Societies
- Pharaoh represents an order set against God's ways and unnamed dominant orders shape societies like water shapes fish.
- Moments of regime change create instability and opportunity to re-evaluate dominant orders.