The
NY Times carried an obituary this morning for Jaroslav Pelikan. He died this past Saturday at age 82. Pelikan
was a historian who influenced me a lot during my younger years. The Sterling professor of history at Yale University,
he wrote many books. The first book of his I read was back in 1959, The Riddle of Roman Catholicism. My mother
was raised as a Roman Catholic. Pelikan himself was brought up in a Lutheran household and remained Lutheran for much
of his life. But in his later years he became a member of the Orthodox Church in America. "For a long time I was
like a pilot circling the airport, looking for a way to land," he said.
My oldest daughter, Melody, and her three
children moved recently. Their new address is Melody Zindell, 2324-A Mapleton Avenue, Boulder, CO 80304. My second
daughter, Cheryl, and her family (four children) also moved across town this past week. Their new address is Cheryl
and Kenneth Schwartz, 15719 Grey Fox Terrace, San Antonio, TX 78255.
I'm going to be away from home for a couple
of weeks, so there will likely not be any new postings during that time
