The song "God Bless America" is also a prayer that God will bless us again. For in spite of all our blessings we still have great needs. I think what Charles Dickens said concerning the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities could well be applied to our day. He said, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”
Today is a time of division. There is a deep cleavage in our land. It is also a time of fear. Scientifically we are in graduate school; morally we are in kindergarten. The same science that has put men on the moon has also made it possible for rogue nations to possess explosive nuclear weapons that are much more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Are those nations sophisticated enough and spiritual enough to handle su...