Chief Justice Roberts, for whom I have the greatest admiration, botched the oath at the inauguration today. This is why I read the Lord’s Prayer from the book when I’m praying it in public, and why I always read the Verba at Divine Service, despite the fact that I’ve said the words many hundreds of [...]
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