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While Pagels’ love affair with evangelical Christianity lasted only a year, her curiosity about the “powerful responses” that stories about Jesus evoked in her persisted; interrogating that response became her life’s work.

It’s a love affair of his lifetime, one that ignited somewhere in the space between Turkey and Nepal, between youth and adulthood.

Looking back I can say it was the start of a lifelong love affair with Shakespeare.

It was a love affair that began as far back as she can recall.

The musical sparked a love affair with singing.