In Mark’s action-packed Gospel narrative, right after the first disciples are called, we get a strange story about an “unclean spirit.” and something like an exorcism. In our scientifically-minded age, we tend to ignore or explain away stories like this. But what if the author of Mark was using this story to tell us something important about the nature of Jesus’s ministry? What should we, as followers of Jesus two thousand years later, learn from such a strange story? And what can it mean for The Land? Eric will wrestle with these questions using a combination of personal stories and research into the Gospel’s historical context.