My friend, Jill’s, father died recently.
Turns out his first name was William. Maybe I knew that once? But he was really just Jill’s dad to me. And he was a character. He worked at Cal Tech, and for a while he was in the Guinness Book of Records as the inventor (builder?) of the world’s smallest working machine. (They eventually did away with this category.) When a group, including Jill and I, were arrested for civil disobedience (in protest of the use of antipersonnel weapons in areas with civilian populations during the Vietnam War) he took (I believe) a still photo of the TV coverage (back when cameras were not digital) as a memento for us. I wonder if Jill still has it — she keeps that kind of thing. (more…)
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Dealing with Differences
Posted by johnmangels under Communion | Tags: by John Mangels, Inclusion, William Temple |Leave a Comment
I saw this quotation from William Temple (a former Archbishop of Canterbury) in the Forward Day By Day for Sunday (October 2):
“In our dealings with one another let us be more eager to understand those who differ from us than either to refute them or to press upon them our own tradition …. Wherever there are divisions which persist, there is sure to be something of value on both sides.” (more…)
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