The Strengths of a Free Democracy Editorial One of the great benefits of testing a political system is the way its virtues are displayed more clearly than ever. One would have thought that simple deception of the voting public would result Read More The Destruction of Society Editorial The great benefit of our present trial is that we see clearly the destructive power of lies. We have all known some of the effects of ‘bearing false witness against our neighbor’ in the tittle-tattle that was shared READ MORE Today's Reality Yonder see the morning blink: The sun is up, and up must I, To wash and dress and eat and drink And look at things and talk and think And work, and God knows why. READ MORE Civility and Change go Together By Colleen Donahue My eye caught a recent article by Thomas Friedman entitled “Where American Politics Can Still Work: From the Bottom Up”. It was all about a small city I am most familiar with Read More Our Own Way By Dan Schafer In our last newsletter we bewailed the reality that most of us fit into that description of humanity from Handel's Messiah, "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way." The tragic negative of "turning to our own way" isn't a reproof for not conforming READ MORE Read Past Issues