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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

I am returning from the Holy Land this morning after having led a study tour of Israel.

As our group left last night, Rosh Hashanah was beginning.

This is the Jewish New Year, celebrating what Jewish tradition considers the birthday of the universe.

Unlike the American New Year, which is observed with parties and

celebrations, Rosh Hashanah is a time of contemplation, repentance, and spiritual purification.

This afternoon, Jews will go to a body of water to perform the Tashlik ceremony, during which

they ceremonially cast their sins into the water. They will spend much of the day in their synagogue, followed by special feasts in the evening.

Observant Jews will then mark the following days as the ten days of repentance, concluding with Yom Kippur,

when they gather in their synagogue for 25 hours of fasting and prayer. This entire period is known

as the High Holidays. As one Jewish website notes, the season of the High Holidays is a time

for an epic journey for the soul, and Rosh Hashanah is where it all begins. Why should we emulate

them this week? As the impeachment inquiry into

President Trump continues to dominate the news, the Colson Center's John Stone Street invites

us to consider wise words written by Chuck Colson in 1999, after President Clinton's impeachment ended with his acquittal by the U.S.

Senate. Colson notes that while 80% of Americans believed Mr. Clinton to be guilty,

two-thirds did not want him removed from office. By not convicting the president,

Colson believed the senators made a decision motivated by politics rather

than the facts of the case. Then he observed, politics is nothing but an expression of culture.

It is not enough to win elections. For political power alone cannot change how people live

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