Augustine and the Child's Voice in the Garden
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years running from God...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years running from God — through philosophy, ambition, and restless pleasure — yet something kept tugging at him, a voice he could not quite name. Then he heard it. A child's singsong chant drifted over the garden wall: "Tolle lege, tolle lege" — "Take up and read, take up and read."…
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