A Tale of Two Trees: Meditations on Faith-Keeping in Story and Song

'How can we sing the Lord's song by the rivers of Babylon?'


In A Tale of Two Trees, book and album two of The Well Trilogy, we ask: When drought, exile, and confusion have left her parched, what choices will the Bride of Christ make to root herself in Jesus, take up her abandoned harp, and keep what seems like a foolish feast of faith in enemy territory? Will the the singers go silent? Or will they set their hearts on pilgrimage, finding that even the valley of weeping can become a place of springs?


What others are saying...

Matthew Clark narrates our daily choices to live into a ground system of small evils or to be grafted into a great Family Tree of Life. Neither will keep us from suffering, but in one we will be companioned. Will we listen to the wild song that beckons?

—Julie Canlis, author of A Theology of the Ordinary


A beautiful journey of song and story that enables us to feel lovingly found in the middle of things, and to know all will be well in the end by God’s grace. That’s good news that many of us need to hear today.

— W. David O. Taylor, author of Open and Unafraid, and A Body of Praise


This book is an invitation to the reader to embark on holy pilgrimage with a band of fellow travelers—to share conversation, tears, laughter, insights, and story, and to become friends along the way. Buoyed by a bright poignancy and full of gentle insight, A Tale of Two Trees will reward readers willing to travel the footpaths of these essays at a wondering, pondering pace.

—Douglas Kaine McKelvey, author of Every Moment Holy, Volumes I, II, and III 


A tree is known by the fruit it bears, and every day we plant ourselves in one of these two family trees.