An encounter with Jesus and a song by Hank Williams combines to challenge us all: While we find it much easier to critique and manage the lives of others, our true responsibility is deeply personal and deeply focused; to follow the particular path Christ has for each of us, and to "mind our own business."

"On this day in history, September 13th: Hadrian began construction on a great wall across the north of England (122)...Michelangelo began carving the statue, 'David' (1501)...Army physician Walter Reed was born (1851)...so was Bill Monroe (1911)...Nintendo released a game called 'Super Mario Brothers (1985). And on this day in history in the year 335, The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was dedicated in Jerusalem, marking the location of Jesus' death and resurrection. That church - with its strange and tormented history - is a pretty good representation of Christianity at its most honest and nitty-gritty. I think it is a good metaphor for the institution itself, and that it can also speak to our individual, personal faith..."

"It is the evaporation of common memory, what a society experiences over time, say a time span of 25 years. When a tragedy is new, the wound fresh; everyone knows, everyone remembers. But as time goes on, evaporation makes the remembrance pool smaller and smaller until one day, only the outline remains of those who once knew, experienced, and swam in the waters of what had happened. In our own country, already a full third of population has no memory of the events of September 11, 2001. Solemn commemoration grows more important, the intentional act of holding people in the common memory."