Job 42 Those of you who have been following the lectionary will notice that I have, this week, abandoned the satisfying story of Hannah and Elkanah, who pray for a miracle and get it; in favor of revisiting the end of the book of Job, which we passed over several Sundays ago. In the book [...]
The composer Stephen Sondheim’s sharpest commentary on the ways of life and love is expressed in the musical Into The Woods. The first act weaves together the hopes of a handful of well-known fairy tales: the Baker’s Wife, and her hopes for a child; Jack and the Beanstalk that brings him to wealth in the [...]
