To Hannah’s Child

Dear Stan,

I feel as if you would not mind if i addressed you so. I first heard of you when my seminary professor mentioned your name and a book you have written with a measure of diffidence. I scan some portions of the book and moved on to other urgent things, sorry. But the title alone began working on my brain, as it opened some windows and shed light on the idea Paul used in the Bible when he called us strangers and exiles.