WOE IS ALL OF US

Terrific column in today’s Washington Post by under-rated columnist, William Raspberry. I recommend it as a tonic for those members of aggrieved ‘groups’ – aren’t we all in some way or another these days? – who don’t see anything but a bitter end-game in our celebration of victimhood. He cites a sermon by the dean of Washington’s National Cathedral, Nathan Baxter. What’s really great about the homily is the way in which Baxter uses a Christian argument for moving beyond group-think and identity-based politics. What matters is our ability to think beyond the categories and labels presented by our often complex identities – and in that lies the very possibility of universal love that Christ preached. I only read it this evening, so forgive the lateness. But this is the kind of argument that will endure.