The first three chapters of the Book of Genesis have always been very problematic to interpret. In particular, most of the time the story of Adam and Eve gets all mixed up and misinterpreted. I’ll try to sort things out a bit in this piece. In the first chapter of Genesis we are introduced to…

In the 1990s Mari and I ran a Semester in Greece program for our college, The College of St. Rose in Albany NY. I thought you might be interested in how it looked and went. It was based in a small city on the extreme Western end of Crete named Sitia where we already had…