Hate the Sin, Not the Book
Reading works from the past can offer perspective—even when they say things we don’t want to hear.
This might seem a very strange time to publish a book recommending that we read the voices from the past. After all, isn’t the present hammering at our door rather violently? There’s a worldwide pandemic; a presidential election is about to consume the attention of America; and if all that weren’t sufficient, we are entering hurricane season. The present is keeping us plenty busy. Who has time for the past?
But my argument is that this is precisely the kind of moment when we need to take some time to step back from the fire hose of alarming news. (When I first tried to type , I accidentally typed instead. Indeed.) As we try to manage our dispositions, we
