Old Lady Dixon, Augustinian Existentialist

“God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.” - St. Augustine of Hippo

Where Mrs. Dixon taught and I learned; lessons in our day were less prosaic than those issued by the road sign.

The first theologian I knew was Mrs. Dixon, my 5th Grade Sunday School teacher. Mrs. Dixon was from an old Ohio farm family, it seemed that all old Ohio families of that era were from farms, and brought with her a pungent Midwestern perspective…