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At one point in C.S. Lewis’s novel Perelandra the hero, Elwin Ransom, had “an experience that perhaps no good man can ever have in our world… a torrent of perfectly unmixed and lawful hatred” in which “the energy of hating never before felt without some guilt, without some dim knowledge that he was failing fully to distinguish the sinner from the sin, rose into his arms and legs and he felt that they were pillars of burning blood.” In current politics we seem to be having the opposite experience. The hatred is flowing in torrents, all right. And bringing with it enough energy to ...

Sir William Allen dies at 83 Sir William Allen. Sir William Allen, who served as governor of The Central Bank of The Bahamas and later minister of finance, died at his New Providence home yesterday after a long illness. He was 83. Former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, in expressing condolences to Sir William’s family, said his contribution to the development and advancement of The Bahamas is immeasurable. Ingraham noted that Allen returned home from the United States in 1970 to take up a post as research manager at the Central Bank. He went on to serve as deputy governor and ultimately...

Celebrating the Knight's Centennial in Cuba This article appeared in the July 2009 issue of Columbia and is reprinted here with permission of the Knights of Columbus, New Haven, Conn--and of Maria de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda, author. by María de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda The year was 1909. Plastic was invented. Censorship of motion pictures began. And 53-year-old American explorer Robert E. Peary became the first to reach the North Pole. It was also the year that the Order founded chapters in both Cuba and Panama. Between the 1899 census and 1908 the population of the island of Cuba, celebrat...

The New Journal and Guide The Crispus Attucks Cultural Center, Inc, (CACC) the organization created to restore Norfolk’s Historic Attucks Theatre will be dissolved as of December 31, according to leaders of the non-profit’s Board of Directors. LaVon Purnell-Wilson, the current board chair since 2016, told the GUIDE two weeks ago, that she and other CACC board members were in the final stages of the process of closing out the operation of the organization. Purnell-Wilson said the Board of Directors has been discussing disbanding the CACC for the past three years, even while planning for...