Sublime

Do not fear, for I am with you;

Mercy triumphs over judgment.

No, applying John 13 today isn’t about church leaders accepting menial tasks, but about church leaders accepting ridicule and embarrassment, about not being respected in society, and not needing the affirmation of their peers. It’s having their ambitions exposed and extinguished. It’s abandoning their desire for a bigger audience, larger platform,

FDR’s attitude toward de Gaulle was personal and petulant. He dug in his heels and ignored the plethora of evidence that de Gaulle, and only de Gaulle, spoke for the French nation. The president’s attitude was analogous to the combination of hubris and obstinacy he displayed in 1937 when he sought to pack the Supreme Court, and in 1938 when he atte