Dear harper

摘要

It'll be some years before you read this, if ever. But given the uncertainties of all our futures, I'll set it down here at the time of your baptism and will hope that—should you ever need it—it will be legible still. Since you're under the age of 2, chances are slim that you'll feel the need for well more than a decade. By then the 21st century will be thoroughly under way. Since it's likely to move as unforeseeably as the 20th, I'll make no effort to predict how the world will feel then about religious faith.