Today’s birthday: Tom Hanks
Christendom
“In its wider sense this term is used to describe the part of the world which is inhabited by Christians…. But there is a narrower sense in which Christendom stands for a polity as well as a religion, for a nation as well as for a people. Christendom in this sense was an ideal which inspired and dignified many centuries of history and which has not yet altogether lost its power over the minds of men.”
Illustrations — from
Saving Private Ryan
and from this week’s G8 meeting:
Saving Private Ryan
and from this week’s G8 meeting:
