A Politician’s One Fatal Mistake

A Politician’s One Fatal Mistake

When I was the principal of a seminary, I would get lots of mail. Usually my assistant would open it, but on Saturday I would do so, and thus would get first sight of the tricky pieces of correspondence, ones that raised worrying issues or asked questions to which I didn’t know the answer or apprised me of an unwelcome decision. Maybe a ministerial selection board had not recommended a student who I thought was a fi ne candidate; or maybe they had recommended one who seemed to me to be implausible. I would stand in my office puzzling over such a letter…