[Updated 2:15 pm CST, 9/29] At the end of the summer I finally picked up Reinhold Niebuhr’s The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. I say finally because the book had been on my shelf for years. I am not 100 percent sure when I bought my copy (almost exactly like the one pictured to the right); I may have purchased it before moving to Chicago in 1997. The point is that I’ve been carrying it around for years—through five moves, a marriage, more than a few jobs, and three cities—based on the fact that it was written Read more