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That Saturday morning in January, I watch as the winter sun angles through the window to break upon my daughter’s hair, pulled back in a tight, neat bun. Beside my daughter stand her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother. Three generations of women come to hear a fourth, my daughter Rachel, read from the Torah scroll.


About the Author

R.R. Reno is a professor of theology at Creighton University, features editor of First Things, and general editor of The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.  Among his recent books is In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity (Brazos).