Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

Somewhere,  Fyodor Dostoyevsky  says the average life of a man is about three generations; that would be around 180 years. Why so long? Well, a man lives in the lives of his family, children and friends. The problem of death – real death, in the sense of obliteration and forgetfulness – begins after the third generation. By the fourth generation, a man is forgotten. Life has lost its grip on the human imagination, and the man is gone, utterly gone, at least on this side of death’s veil. For Christians who believe in the promises of the Living God, death is swallowed up in life everlasting. But not all of us have the courage – or the imagination -- to believe such things.