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nificant sacrifices in order to afford their health-care coverage.”


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“As we approach the end of the Civil War sesquicentennial, we need to think seriously—not only about how wars end, but also about our obli- gations to those oft-unsung heroes who defend our freedom,” wrote Gettysburg [Pa.] College professor Brian Jordan in the Sept. 15 New York Times Sunday Review. Jordan’s piece is one of a seven-part Gettys- burg College-sponsored series to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. He compared the struggles of Civil War veterans with those of veterans today. Thousands of Union veterans “developed addic- tions to the rum and laudanum they had first tasted in field hospitals,” he wrote. “Homelessness, unemploy- ment and destitution became reali- ties for many,” and like today’s vets, many tried to explain their sacrifices to a skeptical public.


Journalist and author Richard Rodri- guez, known for his observations on class, ethnicity, race and religion in America, headlined the Gerhold Lec- ture in the Humanities on Oct. 10 at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. Rodriguez’s new book of essays, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiogra- phy, explores Islam, Judaism, Chris- tianity and their connection to the desert. The annual lecture seeks to promote peace, dialogue and greater understanding of the human experi- ence. Lecture founders Edward L. and Mary Catherine Gerhold were longtime Bexley, Ohio, residents, and Edward Gerhold was a lifelong Lutheran.


Theologian Tink Tinker, a professor at the Iliff School of Theology in Den- ver, spoke Oct. 2 at Carthage Col- lege, Kenosha, Wis., about “World Balance vs. Personal Salvation:


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