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Beginnings, middles and ends cannot embody God, Pemberton claims, because "God is ahistorical. In fact probably God and religion are incompatible propositions." Pemberton asks his new friend, "Do you believe God gave Moses the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, on Mount Sinai?" Everett replies, "Well it's a great story. I think I'm a judge of stories and that's a great story...
...brass cross is stolen from the altar of a small Episcopal church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The theft makes the papers and gives the rector, Father Thomas Pemberton, his 15 minutes of fame. Eventually, it turns up in an odd place: the roof of the Synagogue of Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side. How did it get there...
Casting about for a new novel, Everett is attracted to the incident of the stolen cross and befriends Father Pemberton, who happens to be in the midst of a spiritual crisis. He has lost faith not in God but rather in the fictions that humans have spun around him. "The biblical stories," he says, "the Gospel stories, were the original understandings, they were science and religion, they were everything, they were all anyone had. But they didn't write themselves. We have to acknowledge the storytellers' work...
Among these are Bonny's Landscape Service at 41 Bay State Rd., just off the Fresh Pond Parkway near the Alewife T stop; Pemberton Garden Center at 2243 Mass. Ave. near Davis Square, and Mahoney's Garden Center at 889 Memorial Drive...
Jacqueline K. Donnelly, 68, purchased a Christmas tree yesterday at Pemberton Garden Center, a tradition she said she looks for ward to every year...