“As powerful as this reading is, of course, it only matters if we take it to heart—if we let it saturate us and move us to action. Because the world can be vibrant and whole, but that’s not where it’s headed at the moment. And if part of our job as humans is to feel that wholeness and to bear witness to it, another part of our job—laid out in the first page of the darned book—is to steward and nourish it. But we move to protect that which we first love. The Song of Songs is a call to that love, to a time capsule buried in the Bible for the moment we most need it. Which is now.”