FAS 100

Given the strong response in the Christian blogosphere - lots of good reflection on Schaeffer's work already - I thought to post a few images from Sylvester Jacobs' Portrait of a Shelter, a handsomely bound B/W book of L'Abri in the early 1970s.

The foot of the Schaeffer's bed - board beneath - served as makeshift desk for nearly all the early books and sermon work; classical music blared at full volume, drowning out the noise of the chalet guests below.

Huemoz

 

In the chapel - cattle yoke mounted on the fireplace, referencing "My yoke is easy..." (Matthew 11). Sylvester, an angry black American exile in the "tradition" of James Baldwin, lightened his own burden of race carried from 1960s Tulsa, eventually making England home for thirty years.

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That the goings on - meals, work, conversations - from this village were able to exert such an impact on the greater evangelical world astounds.