Checkout Alan Jacobs “coffee-table website” Gospel Of The Trees.
The site is filled with pictures, quotes, and poems all looking at trees with respect to their theology.
I enjoyed finding a copy of A. A. Milne’s original map of Hundred Acre Wood, above.
I find my meandering here another form of idle pleasure.
Jacobs says:
The Bible is a story about trees. It begins, or nearly enough, with two trees in a garden: the Tree of Life, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The pivotal event in the book comes when a man named Jesus is hanged on a tree. And the last chapter of the last book features a remade Jerusalem: “In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” If you understand the trees, you understand the story.
