What is the Bible in seven words? Kathleen Norris: “The Bible is to play, seriously”

The Bible is to play, seriously

Emily Dickinson, my favorite biblical interpreter, once wrote: “Lately I have concluded that I am Eve, aka Mrs. Adam. You know there is no account of his death in the Bible, and why am I eva? Another comment that made: “Consider the lilies is the only command that I obey,” he sends me to the gospels looking for other imperatives that I had lost to me. Dickinson reminds me that every time I get involved in LectioI am immersed in a serious game.