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Dear Editors:
I was just reading a review of A
Woman’s Place: House Churches in
Earliest Christianity, by Margaret
Y. MacDonald and Carolyn Osiek, with
Janet Tulloch. (The review, by Amy Oden,
appeared in The Christian Century,
October 3, 2006, 7-38). I was reminded of
Susan Ehst’s piece about Lot’s
wife (DreamSeeker Magazine,
Summer 2006). It
didn’t occur to me before that a
person who was not the instigator of the
move would be much more likely to take a
wistful look back at what was being left
than would the person who had made the
decision to leave. I can see Lot setting
off steely-eyed in a new direction while
his wife and family trailed along behind
with lingering glances back at all that
they were leaving. Ms. Ehst turned Lot
and his family into real people. Pretty
good! —David Corbin, Lopez
Island, Washington
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