Scratches chin quizzically

Normally on a Friday night, at the end of a long week at work, the last thing I want to do is engage my mind in abstract thinking. Nonetheless, that's exactly what I did when I went along to hear American theologian Stanley Hauerwaus, visiting Melbourne for the Wheeler Centre's Faith and Culture lecture series. This report from the Bible Society does a nice job of explaining what he was talking about, because I must admit that I found some of what he said hard to understand. An edited transcript of his address can be found here.