This correspondent has too long guarded his light under a bushel: two and a half years of slumber on the path to value centered management. Awake! O sleepers of the land of contraction, wake, expand!

Bending o'er the vale of Horseshoe, this department rises to the compass points. Note Jim Cutsinger at his bellows and furnace-in a zone-his recent works recorded in heaven. Note the coming of Jan Love, bright emanation, herald of global reconciliations. Jon Michael Spencer in Africa and Belgrade. Carl Evans in Boppard. The works of this department turning the cogs of the adverse wheel.

The department's website lists numerous academic resources, special events, partnerships, services, and links to programs of intensive language and other advanced study. We have Mardi McCabe to thank for this constructive pursuit. (And Katie Harbert, from SCHC, for genial labor on this newsletter.)

The view from the Temple Mount/ Haram al-Sharif is heartening and disheartening: Jerusalem in every man and woman, lost tent and tabernacle of mutual forgiveness, called liberty among her children. Return.