The Book That Fell Open in a Milan Garden
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 13:11-14.
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years chasing ambition, pleasure, and philosophical systems that left him emptier with each pursuit. He knew the truth intellectually but could not release the life that held him captive. "Tomorrow, tomorrow," he kept telling himself.…
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