When the great composer Joseph Haydn wrote the music of his immortal “Creation,” he may have been sitting on a grassy hillside in June, as the sun descended in all its glory behind a delicate curtain of iridescent clouds whose beauty spoke clearly of the words in Psalm 19, “The heavens declare the glory of God and […]

The holly and tinsel of Christmas have been removed and we have set our houses in order once more. A New Year has begun, bringing an unusually large package of questions and probabilities which we now have time to think about. The Old Year slowly wrapped its purple shawl around its shoulders and silently slipped into […]