statement one of his Bible professors had made in class, “The hope is in the story, and the story is in the Book.” I don’t know whether the line was original with that professor, but I’ve never come across it again since that day. Neither have I forgotten it; it continues to grip me. For I am increasingly immersed in that grand story, that only story. Sometime after that, my wife and I watched a made-for-television movie, an updated version of the Pollyanna story. In this version the local pastor