War and Culture

Most of us survive on small portions of grace: a holiday comes and with it a child for a few wonderful days. You watch the sun flashing on a radiant young face and wonder what kind of future will confront him. The years pass and you struggle to make a world less bad than the one that is unfolding.

Being a teacher as well as a parent, a student of culture and history and I watch the future being made and consider such questions often. Some months ago I caught a troubling glimpse and the framework being locked into place; it grows more inflexible every day. (more…)