The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the KingdomTheres a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. Theyre both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that its easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off like a branch, being rooted to a place, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit. Its hard to deny that trees mean something, theologically speaking. This book is in many ways