[Magdalen] Whoops. We've got the Southern slavers' battle flag in the Nat...

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

​I don't know who said what and it's not clear to me, but I do what I can:​
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen  wrote:

>
> In a message dated 6/30/2015 10:08:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>
> As a wise bishop once told me, "You can get away with anything in
> stained glass, but watch out for three dimensional images."
>
> The Washington National Cathedral has its Robert E. Lee and Stonewall
> Jackson stained glass window, and nobody is fussing over that.

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No, it's exactly the stained glass windows that are the subject here.  And
in the article on the NPR site, they show some close-up pictures that sort
of illustrate the problem.

​I think one possible solution would be to leave the windows alone and put
up a fairly conspicuous plaque. Tell the unvarnished truth, how the symbols
came to be in that window in the first place, and what they mean today, not
the least of which would be the reason some might find them horribly
troubling in a national house of prayer, supposedly a house for the prayer
of all, not just old white guys.​



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
​an old white guy​

*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not​​ preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
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