Day: August 23, 2018

New students, old (Confederate) monuments

Some older alumni see the changes as an effort to abandon history and tradition. Sewanee alumnus James K. Polk Van Zandt, a 65-year-old retired Episcopal reverend, said he was on the university’s board for decades but became frustrated by repeated efforts to erase the institution’s past. “Whether we like it or not, it is part of our history,” said Mr. Van Zandt, who is white. “If they got kids from New Jersey who don’t want to go there, let them go somewhere else.” – Wall Street Journal

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Compassion

“It’s as if really seeing Jesus in his totality is all that is necessary to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven.”

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