In the Beginning: Sinners and Saints

Who Cares?

Those people from long ago who wrote, wrote for you! Hundreds of years ago they started a cascade of relationships that was formed with future readers like you in mind.

circular diagram: the subject speaks to the writer, the writer creates the text, the text speaks to the reader, the reader listens to and appreciates the subject.

Without your active participation as a reader, however, the relationship will break down and fail. It is up to you to open up the communication that exists with the text. You must talk to the text, ask it key questions and listen to closely the answers it provides.