This is what 40 looks like

"Teach us to number our days, Lord"

I love the Bible. When I say “God is my favorite author,” I’m not giving any lame Sunday-school answer. I mean it. As a literary scholar, I am enthralled by the genius behind the Bible. To imagine that one author could pattern such a story in such resonant ways! To maintain all four senses for our reading—literal, allegorical, tropological, anagogical! …