Oct 28, 2026
On a recent visit to WOW’s partner ministries in Africa our return flight took us home through Athens. Our world owes a lot to Greece, especially its contribution to democracy. Democracy, the word, is a compound of two Greek words: “demos” (“people”) and “kratos” (“power”, “might”, or “rule”). In other words “rule by the people”. It has a checkered past evolving through tribal assemblies in the Dark and Middle Ages, various overbearing hegemonies and monarchies, disruptions of wars and plagues, to our “modern” version of universal suffrage. But its essential DNA was the product of Greek...