Things Change and Things Stay the Same

From The Deep End: Things change - Marblehead Weekly News

“There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.” — G. K. Chesterton This quote has been floating around on my desk for a few months. I tore it out of a magazine and stuck it to my “vision board,” which is a fancy name for a […] The post From The Deep End: Things change appeared first on Marblehead Weekly News.

Things Change and Things Stay the Same

The French language has an endearing little phrase that could almost have been drawn from the Bible’s wisdom literature. “Plus ça change,” they say, “plus c’est la même chose.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. Though I live in the 21st century, I read in the 19th, which is to say, the great majority of the material I read recreationally is sermons written in the 1800s.1 Because a preacher will usually apply a text to the spec…