When It Comes To Gender, Marriage, Family,

I Grew Up As A Fifth-generation Jew In The American South, At The Confluence Of Two Great Storytelling Traditions. After Graduating From Yale In The 1980s, I Moved To Japan. For Young Adventure Seekers Like Myself, The White-hot Japanese Miracle Held A Similar Appeal As Russia In 1920s Or Paris In The 1950s.

I Think That Most Of The Action In Religion Is Around The Home, Is In Families, And Is In Individual Lives, And They Can Go On Their Own Searches, Watch Their Own Tv Shows, Read Their Own Books, Form Their Own Groups And Discuss It, But That's Where The Action Is - On The Home Front.

The Biggest Idea That I Have Learned - I Basically Went In To Write A Book About Adam And Eve, Ended Up Writing A Book About Love. And What Did I Learn? Love Is A Story You Tell With Another Person.

Social Media Is Fine, But We Need To Put The Phones Down And Look Somebody In The Eye. Talk To Your Neighbor. Talk To Your Community. Especially Talk To The One You Love. It's All About Connection. It's Hard, But It's Ultimately What Gives Us Meaning In The World.

The Way To Tell A Really Big Story, I Think, Is To Tell A Really Small Story.