This essay suggests that Mark’s “good news” tells the story of Jesus as the launching ground for the insurgency of God’s coming kingdom. By treating the Gospel as a witness to the nature of God’s reign, we detect a mysterious, paradoxical portrait that eclipses distinctions of time and space and that posits a subversive notion of power predicated on solidarity with those under the sway of evil. In the end, Mark’s “good news” about God’s coming kingdom registers a first-century call that retains relevance today—a robust, counter-cultural call to trust that the end of evil’s occupation is at hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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