Our Better Angels Still Gleam

At Sunset or Sunrise?

Two authors speak to the spirits that may guide us into an unseen future. One poetically psalms the valley we currently pass through. The other points the way to those pinpoints of light that may yet nourish our Republic.

In a recent issue of the Epoch Times, Rick Foltz of Florida paints America’s portrait in shades of blackness that seem to hide all hope.

John R. Wood, Jr., speaks about the seemingly miraculous joining of our divisive selves in open and civil discourse on, of all places, university campuses.

Which shall become our true history? More of us must become Braver Angels.

Dark The Night

Dark as night in broad daylight

evil lurks the land.

The specter creeps fair city

streets

and haunts the halls of justice.

It whispers lies in children’s ear,

and taunts the wise with fear.

Are we remiss in the midst of all

this,

does deceit and half-truth mark

our…