It seems to me, a modern world makes stories in the Bible of demon possession hard to accept. After all, we no longer attribute to the demonic things we can’t understand. Usually, when people act as the person did in the reading, we surmise something other than demons. We live in a modern world, too technically oriented to think that someone out there has a “power” beyond this world in control of their life. And yet my experience tells me that yes, there are powers at work in every human being that cannot be explained by all the machinations of sciences, either hard or soft.