Archive Entry #64: August 21, 2003

What different about today’s entry is its brevity – eighteen years of newsletter columns had steeled me against temptations to write anything but a full page! But for reasons identified in the column, this one turned out shorter.

What’s not different about today’s entry is that its focus on a potentially hot button issue – the public posting of the Ten Commandments – produces a take that is characteristically soft-spoken. Read hard enough, you will find my objection to Alabama’s revolt, but it’s obvious that I’m not trying to pick a fight.

What’s interesting about today’s entry is that today, eleven and a half years later, Alabama and the fired and re-elected state Supreme Court chief justice who made a fuss over the public display of the Ten Commandments is in the news for a similar drama, this time as to whether the state will abide by federal court rulings on same-sex marriage.

What goes around...stays the same!

COMING NEXT: The final of three consecutive year-debuting entries, as for the first time in the Archive we hear from 1997. Its initial representative (of five!) is another of the few columns I have ever written about the official church calendar. This one, about the season of Lent. Find it HERE.