My predecessor as Creative Loafing editor, the always thoughtful Jim Harper, sent friends a link to this eloquent piece of journalism from the New York Times. (The photo above, by Times photographer Stephen Crowley, accompanied the original story.) Here is Jim's own equally eloquent introduction:
An Inaugural Prayer
Some of you don't understand why I've returned to caring about what happens in the Christian church. Others wonder why I ever left.
The article above, about two historic Methodist churches on the same block of Capitol Hill, captures so much about the social divides, the racial divides, and the evolutionary ethical divides, that have separated us for too long as members of the same American community.
Regardless of your politics — and I have to admit, as a Democrat, I maintain an attraction to many Republican ideals, not the least of which is that individual effort should be encouraged and rewarded — I hope you will agree that Barack Obama's inauguration calls us in these difficult times to think about what we have in common:
