We should celebrate Columbus Day soberly and gratefully.

Hopefully much of Meloni’s rhetoric in this regard is mostly showmanship and she governs pragmatically, not as a crusade of resentment. 

She upheld a central cluster of decency amid our world’s many horrors and dangers, for which thank God.

Queen Elizabeth represented the best of the British Empire: dignified, respectful, restrained, stable, transcending culture and time on behalf of timeless truths.

Christian Realism works to harmonize and reform society through mediating rival interests and leaning into Providence.

Christians can discern God’s hand even when He is not directly acknowledged.

The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre should remind us of the dangers of absolutism and demands for coerced religious and political conformity.

Paradises, Protestant or not, do not survive unless robustly defended.

Like Churchill as he mulled Cromwell, we must prepare for threats beyond, while still contending with today.