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GARDEN STORIES
Pondering the Story For years I have pondered the garden story in Genesis 2-3. The story is part of a larger conversation in the ancient Middle Eastern culture about what it means to be human, including such stories as Adapa and the Gilgamesh. To be human, so goes the ancient conversation, is to be between: between the animal…
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POETRY AND OLD BOOK STORES
September 2021
Praise MusicIn a town east of here we happened on a used bookstore. We weren’t sure at first it was still in business. It looked abandoned. But the door was ajar, and we went in. Books and old magazines were everywhere, boxes and boxes of them overflowing in random stacks. The shelves you expect in bookstores,…