BOOK OF JOB

We, eight black men, in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1989, "The Temple of Faith," once communally read aloud the entire "Book of Job," from the same circulating King James Bible , while standing in a circle under a spreading bay tree at outside of the W. E. B. DuBois Learning Center. After that reading, we felt as Prophet Job must have felt, following his epic ordeals: exhausted from hours of standing, reading, hearing but blessed.