+ or - Rowan

He has gotten a lot of bad press over the years, and seems incapable of making anyone happy. This is, of course an interesting projection we put on the boy. "Make us happy." "Be our great external locus of control." "Be a good daddy." But it seems that he doesn't want to play that way with anyone, and doesn't even make himself happy in the process. It's an odd pilgrimage, and one I do not envy him. Many of his old friends accuse him of selling out to the evangelicals, and yet they are as angry with him as anyone.

As things are shaking out, he may be playing a more clever game than anyone thought. Schismatics are rising up on various sides, and, while we might have a smaller communion in the long run, those who cannot remain within will have checked out on their own.

Does anyone pray for him, or do we hope, as with God, that he's on our side.

When Abraham Lincoln was asked what it was like being president, he said,"It's like the man who was tarred, and feathered and ridden out out of town on a rail, who said, 'If it wasn't for the honor of the thing, I'd just as soon have walked.'"