[What follows is a talk I gave last night at the Cum Laude and National Honor Society Induction at The Westminster Schools. Past readers of the blog might recognize some passages that have appeared on the blog before.] It is a pleasure to welcome parents, friends, and most importantly this evening, students, to the Cum […]
Cambridge, Carthage, and Pearl Harbor: The Immediacy of Sacred Places
I visited Pearl Harbor last week, and I have been thinking about it since. In fact I have been thinking about it in combination with two other sacred places I have visited over the last several years—the American Cemetery in Cambridge, England and the American Cemetery in Carthage, Tunisia. It felt important to me to […]