Shortly after becoming a Christian, I attended a L’Abri conference in Rochester, Minnesota. Jerram Barrs gave a keynote address in which he, rather offhandedly, expressed his expectation that he would one day read Jane Austen’s next novel in the resurrection. As a young Christian who learned more about the afterlife from Looney Tunes angels than Revelation 21, a hopeful vision of resurrected culture making was revolutionary.
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