It is those who reflect today of the ongoing connection between the Christian church and the empire as it grew and spread across the world and as it remains a colonized Force. It stands up to the powerful and says the God we believe spoke through the prophet Isaiah: learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. God will always always always be present wherever God pleases and God has already been there already been in the life those have been left behind by the powerful