Give Us This Day Our What Kind of Bread?
Thomas Fleming
Thomas Fleming is president of the Fleming Foundation. He is the author of six books, including The Morality of Everyday Life and The Politics of Human Nature, as well as many articles and columns for newspapers, magazines,and learned journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Greek from the College of Charleston. He served as editor of Chronicles: a Magazine of American Culture from 1984 to 2015 and president of The Rockford Institute from 1997-2014. In a previous life he taught classics at several colleges and served as a school headmaster in South Carolina
Thank you gentlemen and especially for the brave distinction between what Uncle Karl (or is it Joe? )came to remedy and what Christ came to remedy or the difference between wonder bread and the bread from heaven.
This was enlightening. I had always thought that our daily bread referred primarily to our physical sustenance, with perhaps a secondary allusion to our spiritual sustenance. It seems I had it reversed at best. I look forward to the rest of the series.