I was pleased to find the story because my undergraduates were struggling with the concept of whether God existed, and they turned to me because we were reading Sartre. She has had James Cohn's liberation theology on her desk for ages. Now the Justice Studies Association meetings and Gordon's Existentia Africana are merging with Pat's earlier interests. I had earlier turned to Talmudic studies as an approach to the same essentialist questions. So that when people accused Him of injustice in electing the Jewish people, He could say that He created the world, and so could give it to whomever he pleased.
Existential questions are an integral part of theology.
Justice and Good and Evil are at the core of our understanding of God. And Black and White, as signifiers of Good and Evil are at the core of our existential understanding. So it behooves us to try to understand these concepts as they are reflected in our lived experience.