It was their own Clerk who said it, in a letter opening the October 16 2021 Zoom Representative Meeting, or RM: “SAYMA must arise from its spiritual deathbed of debilitating fragmentation or give up the ghost.” The signs were all around. One of the most significant, to me, was in a seemingly noncontentious committee report: … Continue reading SAYMA: The Deathwatch Begins
On a road trip with daughter Molly. She too is a history buff. When we went to Richmond on Oct. 14, I was most eager to drive down fabled Monument Avenue, where a new history is overtaking a former one. For more than a century, Monument Avenue was famous for a parade of mounted Confederate leaders, … Continue reading Four New Views of Robert E. Lee: History Comes to Richmond
A substantial Holiday Weekend Read: I always feel uneasy when finding myself in agreement with rightwing Catholic pundit Ross Douthat. But in his August 31 NYTimes column, he nails it, mocking the spectacle of : ” . . . generals and grand strategists who presided over quagmire, folly and defeat fanning out across the television … Continue reading A Quaker Theologian for Our Hard Times.
“Predictions are hard,” said the sage yogi Berra, “especially about the future.” Yet sometimes there are exceptions — predictions that are easy. Like this one: