Happy Fourth of July to American readers, and to readers outside the U.S., please forgive our American tendency to self-infatuation on our national holiday. I’m pretty sure the world doesn’t revolve around us. But I know quite a few fellow Americans who are less sure of that, unfortunately.
Meanwhile, I’m delighted to see that Laurie Lebo has chosen to post a Fourth of July piece at Religion Dispatches about my fellow Arkansan, young Will Phillips.
As Lebo concludes, Will Phillips is a signpost to a brighter future for the human community, one in which—we can hope—the American democratic experiment will be realized just a tiny bit more adequately than it has been realized up to now:
Of course, the good news in this is that poll data indicates that the Will Phillips of the world are going to win this battle. And the petty bigots for whom the phrase "liberty and justice for all" are just words to be parroted, devoid of any real meaning, are dying out.
May Lebo’s words prove true. And may the many Will Phillips coming to adulthood in the next decade around the world find wings for their words.
