Several years ago it was announced about the executionof a Syrian archeologist, historian and curator of oneof the most spectacular archeological sites in the MiddleEast. ISIS took this eighty-one year old scholar to thecity square of Palmyra and during the busiest time of theday ISIS decapitated him. His headless bodywas hung from a pole in town. His crime wasspending his …

What’s the saying? All good things must come to anend? We experience a number of “lasts.” In the secularworld, I recall The Last Picture Show, the Last of the Mohicans,The Last Samurai. In the religious world, Christianitysays there are four last things: death,judgment, heaven and hell. We give the dyingfaithful last rites, and we recall the Last Supper.Taverns have a …