Augustine's Voice in the Garden
In the summer of 386 AD, a restless young professor named Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. He had spent...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
In the summer of 386 AD, a restless young professor named Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. He had spent years chasing ambition, pleasure, and philosophical debates, ignoring the quiet pull he could not name. Then he heard it — a child's voice from a neighboring house, chanting in a sing-song rhythm: "Tolle lege, tolle lege."…
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