Michael's correspondent

I imagine that each one of us regrets the tone of and sentiments expressed in the e-mail that Michael received from an angry reader.  And, I'm sure I'm not the only MOJ blogger who has received similar e-mails (though mine come more from the "left" than from the "right"). 

The cranky missive Michael received serves as occasion to remember, it seems to me, that Mirror of Justice is a public conversation among friends / lawyers / scholars about what the Faith means for "legal theory."  And, it is a conversation among people who disagree strongly about many things and who might -- this side of Heaven -- understand the Faith differently.  We have never promised that all of our posts will be sensible, let alone orthodox.  But, I hope readers know, we are doing our best.  No matter how misguided I have thought some of my fellow bloggers' views and conclusions were, I have believed from the beginning of this enterprise that the conversation was worth having -- and worth having in public -- if only to "model" for students and fellow citizens what good-faith searching-in-community might look like.  (This is not to say, of course, that all views are equally correct, or to pretend it does not matter whether or not we get it right.)  So, I hope our readers in Omaha will not be swayed by the crochety complaining of Michael's correspondent.

And, of course, someday I will succeed in convincing Michael Perry to agree with me about those few matters where he persists, at present -- no doubt just to keep things interesting -- in disagreeing with me.  Stay tuned. . .