Words From My Father

For my children...

                          Some favorite quotes:

"The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned."

-- Chief Justice William Rehnquist, from his dissent in Wallace v. Jaffree, 1985

 

"Now the Senate is looking for moderate judges, mainstream judges. What in the world is a moderate interpretation of a constitutional text? Halfway between what it says and what we'd like it to say?"

-- U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Aug. 29, 2005

Below are the notes sent in 2017. 

• Bartholomew - December 10, 2017
• The Lutheran and the Catholic - December 4, 2017
• Dinner conversation - November 23, 2017
• How did we get here - October 17, 2017
• Vineyards - October 7, 2017
• Perspective - September 7, 2017
• The Leaders of the Band - June 29, 2017
• A Plan For Lent - May 21, 2017
• Green and Blue - April 25, 2017
• Moving Day - April 8, 2017
• Made Out Of Moonlight - March 12, 2017
• Answered and Unanswered - February 4, 2017