In 2011, I was called by my Uncle Godfrey—God the Uncle—to sum up the Bible in the voice of Kenrick, the kind of tess who, when look up from your Argentine merlot and escargot and see him through your fine dining restaurant’s window, seems to be getting far more enjoyment from his sno cone and salt-nuts on a bench round the Savannah.
I chose the King James Version as the most widely accepted Word of God, even if it was actually agreed upon by British civil servants working for a probably homosexual monarch 1611 years after God first spoke. Though they often fall on a Christian holiday, these Kenrick columns are NOT an aspersion on the Bible, but a celebration of our own voice that, somehow, against all odds, redeems us; at least to my ear and way of thinking. So far, Kenrick and I have summed up Genesis Chapters 1-19, the Passion Play and the Nativity Story.
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