Eden 2
The Treehouse: Conversations About God
ICYMI — the acclaimed novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, the Gilead novels, etc.) has written Reading Genesis, “a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.” The book becomes available March 12th. Robinson treats it as she would a novel, with characters and plot.
(Curious about her decision to use the King James version1, but I know for many that because of the poetic language and all the “thee, thou, thy, and ye” it feels like the “real” bible. (A sort of apocryphal story among pastors, who have taken heat from congregants when they use other versions, is the elderly woman who accosts a pastor one Sunday after worship, saying, “If the King James Version was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.”) Anyway, eager to get my hands on Robinson’s book and her fresh, engaging take.
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