A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob (The Genesis Trilogy)

This book offers another interesting exploration of Genesis while including bits of memoir, science, and philosophy. If you like C.S. Lewis you should try Madeline L’Engle. Her conclusions may be unsatisfactory to some evangelicals, but are challenging and thought-provoking and worth reading deeply.

Another great read from this author.

This book was delivered promptly, in good condition (for a used book). I have read and enjoyed other books by this author and look forward to this one.

Excellent book. Enjoyed it and learned a lot

Excellent. How many more words must I write to be polite? Seriously, if one is satisfied stop with the word requirements!

Nice

I borrowed a copy of this book from the library, and I hope it comes back in print. I'd like my own copy. I brought it to a coffee shop where a friend examined it and exclaimed, "Madeline L'Engle wrote non-fiction?" Yes, and I actually prefer her lesser-known non-fiction. This delightful book is not a commentary per se on the Genesis account of Jacob. Like Madeline's Crosswick memoirs, it meanders around the story of Jacob, occasionally settling on an event, then flitting to something else, a personal recollection, a challenging story, all the while somehow retaining the focus that Jacob's story is our story. Is anyone less likely to receive or deserve a blessing than Jacob? Yet we too are blessed in all our imperfection, which makes it possible for us to love and reconcile with other flawed people. Some readers may disapprove of the evangelical universalism expressed, but Madeline was a Christian hopevist, holding out optimism that the redemption and reconciliation of the cross would eventually extend to all, bringing wholeness, in spite of what appears discord, brokenness, and dissonance in the fallen universe. Throughout the book Madeline keeps returning to her jury duty experience, and the fate of two slimy defendants, who seem much like Jacob. She has no choice but to "bless the bastards". "God will bless, but we must play our own part in the blessing."

Not a quick read if you digest and examine every thought, but a good review of the Bible history of Jacob and relate it to modern living.