The recent rioting and burning in Baltimore might be considered a snapshot of a trend in America as a whole. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake supported the burgeoning violence in her city by telling police to give anarchists “space to destroy.” Later, when Rawlings was asked for accountability about her words, ...

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures ...

They came almost weekly while we were growing up, letters from our dad. Typed on an antique typewriter, they always started with the same salutation: “How are my two best girls?” They were filled mostly with questions to my sister and me, assuring a return letter would arrive in Dad’s ...