THE WINE OF THE NEW CREATION Through the pipes flows the wine of New Creation to invite us into the feast of the New. But the wine of the feast will flow backwards from New Creation to our reality. As Christians, we can begin to sup on the feast to come, even though our vision of it is limited on this side of eternity. The arts—even as done by nonbelievers—celebrate this feast to come.5 Examples such as Isak Dinesen’s story “Babette’s Feast,” Ernest
