Photo: The cover artwork of 'Reading Genesis' by Marilynne Robinson.

By Marilynne Robinson

Reading Genesis

By Marilynne Robinson

by Bob Ward 24th January 2025

What might one make of a text thousands of years old, pulled together by writers in a culture very different from our own, to create a mixture of fable and purported historical narrative? The accounts feature people who can experience a relationship with God, but do not always behave well. Have we anything to learn from their stories?