OFFENDING GOD!

by John McDonnell Tierney

CHARACTERS

ELIJAH WHITMAN
Male, “almost 21 years old.” 
A student at The University whose academic 
studies conflict with his Evangelical beliefs.

JULIUS “JULES” BOOKMAN,
Male, 60-70 years old.
A professor at the University who tries to 
help Elijah resolve those conflicts

SETTING

Professor Bookman’s Office at the University.

Elijah Williams, a student in Jules Bookman’s Senior Seminar in Human Development, has enjoyed the class for fourteen weeks now and has come to like the professor very much. But one of Bookman’s lectures throws Elijah into a fit of cognitive dissonance. It seems the topic of human sexuality, specifically science’s position on sexual diversity, is at extreme odds with Elijah’s religious beliefs. Jules engages Elijah in a thoughtful dialogue embedded in a deeply personal context examining both positions and the impact they have on behavior.