I write this email from my desk in my new house (not newly constructed, just newly-lived-in-by-me)! My wife and I are first-time homeowners, having moved back from Chicago to my home city of Pittsburgh, PA. When I mentioned to a few of you that I was in a cross-country move, you asked if I am leaving the Century. Let me put all such thoughts to rest: I love this magazine and this job, and I hope to work here for many centuries (it’s just a hope).
In a cool bit of timing, one of the first things I did when I got here was record this week’s new video, a chat with Pittsburgh-area pastor Austin Shelley. So if you watch our conversation, perhaps you will witness the beginning of a beautiful real-life friendship.
“By the end of the argument, it would not have been more surprising if Justice Alito had warned that the rains might fail and the crops wither if a president were subjected to the laws of the republic.”
“My son will need to be convinced—convinced by the lives he sees that this baptismal life is one worth living. I take this call seriously, both as his pastor and his mom.”
