July 9, 2005
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Today’s birthday: Tom Hanks
Christendom“In its wider sense this term is used to describe the part of the
world which is inhabited by Christians…. But there is a narrower
sense in which Christendom stands for a polity
as well as a religion, for a nation as well as for a people.
Christendom in this sense was an ideal which inspired and dignified
many centuries of history and which has not yet altogether lost its
power over the minds of men.”Illustrations — from
Saving Private Ryan
and from this week’s G8 meeting:
