
A vanishing hope for peace in the Holy Land
Events this week combined to underscore my length of days, the devastation in the Holy Land — and how the two are drawn together.
On Tuesday, my readings in the Forward Movement ministry of the Episcopal Church urged that I pray for the church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.
The next day, during a rendition of the Pledge of Allegiance at a downtown D.C. luncheon, it struck me that as a student, I recited those words for 10 years before “under God” was added in 1954. My 85th birthday on Friday marks me as older than today’s pledge, as well as a contemporary of the travails that have plagued the Holy Land since the Arab-Israeli War of 1948.… Seguir leyendo »