Obiter
- September/October 2000
- November 1, 1997
A Warm Fuzzie I read your "Millennium Man" piece and felt that you must be named after Abraham Lincoln since some of the stardust of the Gettysburg address fell onto your pen for that piece … well done! LARRY PAHL via E-mail [Whoever said ego has no place in editing never got such an endorsement.
READ MOREPerhaps the fog of time has managed to blur the reality of presidential elections past in my memory. Perhaps! But surely they couldn't have started as early as this current one. I think it began in earnest when President Clinton won his reelection-last century. And this opening year of the next century has been pretty
READ MORE"The Power Choice" article states that many evangelicals are moving away from supporting Separation of Church and State. The primary reason for that shift is that the humanist-dominated courts, media and politicians have redefined that term. When Jefferson coined the phrase in a letter to Baptists he meant that Church and State were separate entities
READ MOREThe closing days of 1999, while full of talk of millennial possibilities, were curiously lacking in real optimism (blame Y2K if you like). Curious because the stock market (which may now have descended the depths) was at that time and the time of this writing sailing well beyond the 11,000 mark-an all-time high, buoyed up
READ MOREChristian to the Core I am finally writing this letter in response to an article I saw in Liberty some years ago (actually, May/June 1996). I was a bit surprised when I read "Our Godless Constitution." As a teacher and historian I was alarmed at your article. Over the years I became fascinated with early
READ MORESuddenly time is everything, and all-consuming. This once-in-a-lifetime passage–no, that's hopelessly out of scale–this societal blank check of entering a new millennium is consuming us all. And yet time is the ultimate intangible. One twentieth-century writer expressed it as the artifice of eternity. But time is the pool that we swim in, and as you
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