I thought about my childhood and tried to reconstruct the pictures that had been in my mind as I’d read Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, Colette and Miller, Voltaire and Diderot, Genet, Duras.

If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we’d ever get past the first chapter. The claims that Genesis 1 makes about who and what we are as human beings are so potent, so stirring, so breathtaking, and ultimately so demanding that we can’t just read it and move on. The chapter demands nothing less than a radical reorientation of our lives

If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we’d ever get past the first chapter. The claims that Genesis 1 makes about who and what we are as human beings are so potent, so stirring, so breathtaking, and ultimately so demanding that we can’t just read it and move on. The chapter demands nothing less than a radical reorientation of our lives

looked through the Gideon Bible in my motel room for tales of great destruction. The sun was risen upon the Earth when Lot entered into Zo-ar, I read. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that whi