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The Saint Who Couldn’t Stop Sinning
Sometime around 370, a group of teenage boys in North Africa stripped a neighbor’s pear tree in the middle of the night, carried off more fruit than they could ever eat, and threw most of it to the pigs. Nobody was hungry. The pears weren’t even good. One of those boys spent the next forty years unable to explain why he did it.
His name was Augustine, and he would become one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. But this is the part the marble statues leave out: he could see the better life with total clarity, describe it more beautifully than almost anyone alive, and still not…
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