Episode Two: "Ellis Island.", Luke 3:15-22

All stories begin with water. At least the ones that ended up being printed in Adolph Och’s New York Times. That is because the printing process begins with it. Both Reform Judaism and Reformed Protestantism are drenched in a similar metanarrative: the idea of an elect people submerged in salvation history. One version of that story appears in our reading from the Gospel of Luke 3:15-22. He told those who traveled from the big city to a smaller water with bigger implications.