BYU Studies Quarterly
Keywords
Unity, Colossians, knitting
Abstract
The unusual thing about knit fabric is that it’s one continuous strand. Woven fabric consists of a warp and weft where individual strands arranged in a grid weave in and out, touching but ultimately separate. The knit fabric on everything from an ugly Christmas sweater to your favorite soft t-shirt looks like it’s made of hundreds of little “v” shapes, but it’s not. It loops in and through itself over and over and over, but it’s all connected. One long piece of yarn.
When Paul wrote to the Colossians that we should have our hearts knit together in love, did he understand this? Was he trying to tell us that we are not as separate as we appear? That we are all made of the same star-stuff, god-stuff, the fabric of the cosmos and of community? That you and I are not just you and I but one family of God?
Recommended Citation
Busby, Liz
(2023)
"Knit Together,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 62:
Iss.
3, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol62/iss3/11