No doubt we will be asked what use we made of the spiritual means we had at hand. For Charles, Orthodoxy looms large among them, thanks to family and to his traditionalist studies. For Nixon it was the Society of Friends. Perhaps Nixon's tragedy is that Elton Trueblood watered down the Friends' tradition to what would suit rather than challenge the young man's ambitions.

You would agree that Orthodoxy is a way to Christ, a way of Christ, and perhaps for some the best way. And if Charles has found it, more power to him.