It was a GREAT show indeed. As I wrote somewhere else (maybe in the Monday chat), I was never Anglican, but I feel a closeness to that world, being a WASP-type, having been convinced through Cardinal Newman, and with my favorite writers being Newman, Chesterton, and Lewis. I even had an uncle who was an Anglican priest (most of my extended family on both sides were Methodists). Alas, he was murdered in 1964 when I was six. I think it had a devastating effect on my father's Christianity and he has been pretty nominal ever since.
In an eery coincidence, I lost my only (older) brother Gerry when I was also 39, just like my dad did, but to leukemia. But I haven't lost faith at all. I accepted that as part of life: that some people die young. It's a mystery how tragedy affects people so differently.
Last edited on Wed May 14th, 2008 09:42 pm by Dave Armstrong
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