I understand then that preaching is a peculiar, freighted, risky act each time we do it: entrusted with an irascible, elusive, polyvalent Subject and flying low under the dominant version with a subversive offer of another version to be embraced by subversives. I focus this strange act precisely on one pivot point that is fairly obvious as illustrative. The dominant version of reality among us is a narrative of violence. This can run all the way from sexual abuse and racial abuse to the strategy