Andrew Ashcroft

ANDREW ASHCROFT {[email protected]} has studied at Gordon College in Massachusetts, at Yale University, and at the General Theological Seminary in New York. He has worked as a corporate manager, a finish carpenter, and an Episcopal priest. He now makes his home in a log cabin in the woods of northern Minnesota where he writes about theology, ecology, economics, and nature.

The Great Vigil of Easter

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 1

My parents, in a nice haphazard sort of a way exposed me early on to the basic classical literature and ideas that they thought I needed to know. The raciness of some of the Greco-Roman myths was not lost on them, but they thought that perhaps the myths were not much more risque than the stories that I was likely to encounter in the scriptures (which is true) and besides, surely it was better to learn about the birds and bees from the Greeks and Romans than from the gossip and innuendo of schoolchildren or the pages of a magazine.