Thanks to Ron Lora for his timely and bracing column (12/11/17) on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and the relevance today of his insights into political power and social justice. Niebuhr was a charismatic preacher and professor, says Lora. Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., would agree. Of Niebuhr, he wrote: “high-spirited, great-hearted, devoid of pomposity and pretense, endlessly curious about ideas and personalities, vigorous in his enthusiasms and criticisms, filled with practical wisdom and, for all his robust ego, a man of endearing humility.”
We could sure use him now.
David S. Adams, Lima
