Areopagus Volume XXIII

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the twenty third volume of Areopagus, coming to you today on the 104th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War. On this most solemn of days I thought it might be appropriate to write about that conflict and its fallout.

Acts of remembrance can become abstract when disconnected from the thing they were supposed to commemorate, while the cold facts of history may distance us too much from the humanity of it all. Art and culture, however, can bring to life what has long since passed. I hope this week's Areopagus, if only for a moment, might do such a thing.