In her book, Up With Worship, Anne Ortlund compares the average church to a bag of marbles, rubbing together and making a little bit of noise, but not really connecting to one another. Ortlund says ...

So what does Adam do? He eats the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, introducing the human race to sin. The bountiful other fruit trees, the vast garden with rivers, lakes ...

Liberalism, California fires and the Bible Liberalism is a desire to be free of authority and where it all started, I believe, is in the Garden of Eden, where the first two liberals, ever, are found.