May you continue to be tan, rested, and ready, as well as astute, eloquent, and refreshingly witty for the next decade and more, as we pull out of this morass -- for we will. You are a joy to read and to view on Fox. In fact, when I hear your voice on the panel, if I've wandered out of the room, I call to my Min Pins, "Come on, you dogs, Charles Krauthammer is on!" and we all rush for our places on the sofa.

All the best,
Jan Mahood
dogroses@hotmail.com

Bill Murchison will give a presentation on his book Mortal Folly and the Episcopal Church today at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Clinton, NY on Friday, October 23. His talk and Q and A will follow a reception at 5 p.m.

Come and meet this nationally syndicated columnist at AHI headquarters, the former Alexander Hamilton Inn in the heart of this lovely upstate New York village a stone's throw from Hamilton College. It promises to be a stimulating program and an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals.

Please email bob@theahi.org to let us know you'll be there.

Jan

You can't win if you leave the playing field. And we're playing for very high stakes indeed, nothing less than our immortal souls. You can find the details in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer -- for 460 years the standard of worship for the Anglican and Episcopal denominations. If you don't have a 1928 at hand, go to http://www.etf1928.org.

In 1971, I first set eyes on the "Trial Liturgy," the "Green Book" that was the revisionists' foot in the door. "If you don't like it, we can go back to the regular Prayer Book," we were told by our bishops and priests. Then they did their best to toss the traditional BCP down the memory hole.

The jackbooted foot in the door kicked the door wide open to let in "strange and erroneous...