Poor Jeremiah, the First! Forty years he spent trying to stem the flood of national self-deception. He was stoned with insults, from the lowly mob through every class, rank, and commentator (through the reigns of three kings Josiah, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah). At last, when insults were not enough his detractors resorted to the real thing. […]
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by SMSmithOnceLaid upon the altar of the worldThe innocent child of the Hinnom wildKilled amidst the groves.[1] NowLaid upon the altar of the worldThe neglected child in pursuits reviledFor things laid up in store.The ciphered child in perversities defiledBy addicts demeaning, ever demanding more.And the embryo child in a world beguiledBy rights of all but
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by SMSmith Listening to the Pam Fessler piece about Jack Bauer on NPRs Morning Edition (March 17) raised some disquieting remembrances from the book of Isaiah. Thus I am given to wonder if perhaps Jack Bauer is not so much a “quintessential hero for a … frustrated nation,” but rather a quintessential anti-hero of a
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