“There we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise. That is what shall be in the end without end. For what other end do we propose to ourselves than to attain to the kingdom of which there is no end?” —Augustine, The City of God Lifelong, Sir Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) was employed as […]
Genesis
An Artist Looks at Genesis: A Garden Tragedy
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after the wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun. —Ecclesiastes 2:11 From birth, Bible-believing churches had been my spiritual home, but when I headed […]
An Artist Looks At Genesis: Tending the Garden
Last week, Cam Anderson began the series An Artist Looks At Genesis by considering “The Garden We Long For.” In this week’s post, he considers the significance of the first couple’s work of tending and caring for the garden. ____________________ Plant gardens, eat what they produce. —From a letter to the exiles in Babylon, Jeremiah 29:5 […]
An Artist Looks At Genesis: The Garden We Long For
We are grateful to Cameron J. Anderson for this series of articles on “An Artist Looks At Genesis.” The early chapters of Genesis are often contended space between scientists and theologians. Anderson, an artist by training, was the former director both of InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministry and later, Christians in the Visual Arts. He […]
Summer reading: “Welcome to the [Wright] Revolution!”
(N.T. Wright sings “Genesis” at Hearts and Mind, https://vimeo.com/4214987) Last week Mike asked what’s on our various summer reading lists. I’m going to be reading some works by the story-telling minstrel Rt. Rev. N.T. (Tom) Wright, Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. As some of […]