Jesus : a meditation on his stories and his relationships with women is a look at the parables of Jesus and the passages about his relations with women from a slightly different angle.  Greeley is a storyteller and so he analyzes them as stories. What do they say? What is the point of the story? Why was it written down and remembered when other events were not?

This is a good method to break open a story and see something fresh within it.  Many of us have read these texts as children, as young adults and as adults, have looked at them as sacred, as literature, as texts to be decoded.  Examining them as stories  takes us back to square one, where everything we have learned can still be applied. His comments about the parables (there are always three people in a parable, God, a person and a third party which is the audience/reader) are worth the price of admission by themselves.  Quirky and idiosyncratic as always, Greeley enlightens not despite that, but because of it.