“Scripture is a script that is already published. But our lives — at least in the time that is before us — are not. There are narratives still in process. Asking how a text might go differently is another way of asking how our lives might go differently. . . We can claim the strength of standing together. We can claim the courage of planting our feet. And we can claim the freedom of imagining new endings — where things might go differently, so life can flourish. This is an act of imagination, truth-telling, and hope.”
Anna Carter Florence, the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary (Decatur, GA), from an article in Christian Century magazine titled “Listening to Tamar“