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I’ve just received the semi-annual newsletter from Michael and April Floyd. Michael was my Old Testament professor at the Seminary of the Southwest…April ran the refectory, and marshaled a cast of liturgical dancers who from time to time participated in our Thursday Eucharist. Last year we supported them financially through proceeds from theRead More →

I just saw Cormac McCarthy’s latest play aired on HBO entitled The Sunset Limited in which a paroled murderer attempts to talk a college professor out of committing suicide. In the beginning of the play the points of view of the two characters couldn’t be more divergent. The ex-con played by SamuelRead More →

When he was about sixteen, one of my sons told me he was an agnostic, that he doubted the rudiments of the faith that he had learned in Sunday School, that he had heard discussed among his friends. I told him that that’s a good thing…I having remembered reading PaulRead More →

One of our sons is suffering from depression…twenty years ago perhaps, and certainly fifty years ago, one wouldn’t speak of such a thing…the taboo of mental illness was just unmentionable. I had a great aunt who had serious mental health issues way back when, before we had heard the term bipolar, andRead More →

Europeans often speak of the American ethos as immature, that collectively we behave as a culture like a spoiled child; and in our defense, we are indeed a very young nation compared to other world civilizations, but I think that in many ways the criticism is apt. We only have to lookRead More →