of relationship with God and neighbor is older still. His approach is new to many of us, not because his way of doing ministry is newfangled, but because it is so old and wise as to be forgotten. His approach makes central his humanity rather than his faith, his creatureliness rather than his redemption. Ecclesiastes starts decidedly with the truth that all of us are in the world no matter who we are and that all of us have this one thing in common: we are human and as such we must commonly navigate