Written by Noah Lawrence (Year ’15-’16, Summer ’16) – Unprecedented is one of our most frequent words for these challenging times in America. We have witnessed astonishing political turmoil and even violence reaching a climax during the transfer of power in Washington and still ongoing in our conflict over understanding what happened this past January. Amid these hard times many Americans of diverse faiths have been turning to our most venerable religious texts for solace and guidance. When we do we find that through the lens of such timeless wisdom nothing is truly unprecedented. These texts speak to the deepest questions of the human condition including the fundamental issues at stake in our eras events. In this way our classic texts provide a map for the journeys of our times.
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