The word genesis is rich with meaning–it marks the beginning not of random or chaotic happenings, but of a coherent story–a series of causally related events undertaken by characters in conflict.  Meaning arises from this conflict, how it is resolved or left unresolved, what the conflict itself reveals about the characters.. 

The book of Genesis is much more than merely the creation stories featuring Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel.  Genesis tells stories of the birth of faith through our first ancestors, beginning with the first family–Abraham and Sarah and Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac–and ending with Joseph forgiving his brothers, dying in in a Egypt, his last words promising that God will deliver them, and requesting his bones to be taken to the Promised Land (Gen. 50:24-26).

This summer is a good time to consider what Genesis means to us, how we find meaning and discern the ways God is at work in our lives and in the world.  

I invite you to join me in reading and studying Genesis through the summer.  We will read lectionary texts from Genesis every week, but these texts skip over stories that expose the characters in high moments we read on Sundays as they struggle through low times and behave less than admirably.  These low times sharpen and heighten the high moments, and help us better understand what it means for us to live faithfully when we ourselves struggle.  

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