The short story is a pastoral tool for moving from the kerygmatic center of Israel’s theologians to the outlying peripheral people who feel left out of salvation history. In the process of telling the story of their lives (or better, teaching them to tell it), their names and struggles, their sins and disappointments are rearranged into a plot that

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the discussions that you describe in that classroom about good and evil and how to be moral, and how to engage difference and how to engage serious, complex questions and disagreement, where good and evil are not at all clear, or what to do with that, it all feels so resonant with, I think, the questions we know that are with us, not just in this... See more