Fort Slumber

IRECENTLY SPENT a week in Virginia with Episcopalians. A nice lady picked me up at the airport, and on the way to the retreat center, she told me the event had been declared a political-free zone and I couldn’t say anything about politics. When people hire me to speak, they’re aware my political views are informed by my religious beliefs, so I was unsure how I could avoid any mention of our current troubles, and not at all sure I wanted to. Fortunately, the political-free rule didn’t take, and within a few hours, everyone was groaning and grumbling about the surplus of idiots in Washington.

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