Peter Gomes, Minister of memorial Church at Harvard, recently spoke of the Bible as "A book of the imagination" (The Good Book). Don't think of scripture primarily as rules, as lists of regulations. Think of the Bible as a book meant to speak, to stoke, to fuel the imagination.

From what I see, imagination is in short supply these days. We modem folk tend toward mostly facts and figures. We're more in to statistics than symbols. We keep close to the solid stuff which we call "reality." Of course, when one begins with the assumption that, "real" only refers to that which can be touched and tasted, reality shrinks, our expectations for what can and cannot be done get scaled considerably down.

Neil Postman (Technopoly) sees our preoccupation with computers as evidence of our paucity of imag…