Now that our children have been "exposed" to the President, maybe people will be able to reflect more seriously about all the furor. It has not been one of our finer hours as a nation. Thank God for Laura Bush who spoke up and said it was most appropriate for the President to address school children. She had better say that -- her husband and father-in-law both did during their time in office. I saw on the NBC Nightly News that one group of parents, where the school would not allow the speech to be shown and heard, kept their kids home so they COULD watch the speech live. Kudos to such reasonable people.
In today's edition of SOJO, the e-mail version of SOJOURNERS Magazine, Brian McLaren has a powerful piece that begs for more moderate and reasonable Republicans to stand up and take leadership. You may want to check it out at this link -
(I just checked this link and for some reason it doesn't work. Sorry about that. But if you type it into your browser, it should work -- at least it does for me!)
While going over some material that I wrote years ago, I found this quote from Madeleine L'Engle. It addresses the issue of faith, but I think it also speaks an appropriate word for the times in which we live as a nation: "All I have to know is that I do not have to know in limited, finite terms of provable fact that which I believe. Infallibility has led to schisms in the Church, to atheism, and to deep misery. All I have to know is that God is love, and that love will not let us go, not any of us."
God deliver us from the "know-it-alls" and let us learn the fine art of dialogue and real conversation.
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