Tart Wine: Reflections on George Herbert's "The Bunch of Grapes"
Might the wilderness experience of Israel, including its story of complaint in the midst of great blessing, mean more to us if we were to believe that, in a real sense, we were there? Might it help us to see (or hear) ways that we sometimes sound like we still are? One less we should take from Israel's story is that the shape of the Christian life--as a kind of retelling of that story--is one of regular temptation toward complaint. Though surrounded with God’s presence and his promises, the a...