Words appropriate both in the instant and broader perspective. It is right for The Missouri Bar to be sensitive to the concerns of the Mound City Bar. No serious thinking person can avoid the fact that, for our generation and probably for the next, bridging racial, gender and cultural gaps has been and will be one of our greatest needs. Most of our religious traditions teach that one God made us all. A common creator, a common maintainer, of all peoples.
Modern science teaches a bit more complicated, but none the less consistent theme.
Fourteen billion years ago, and we cannot even guess how many light years away, an explosion of a common mass sent particles screaming across space, colliding and combining to form planets, and stars, and eventually us, here on earth. Imagine the journey we have taken. A miracle that holds our civilization together in a world changing before our very eyes. As I look back at this past year, I am not surprised that it felt so busy for us at the Supreme Court. The Missouri Court Automation project moved from pilot sites to statewide rollout.