Mary Ann Glendon

Religion in Vietnam today looks markedly different than it did 40 years ago.

How religious liberty could become a second-class right

Learning to appreciate a great theologian

I am grateful to the conference organizers for suggesting the word “glimpse” in the title of this talk, because I have to admit at the outset that I do not have a vision of a fully formed new feminism rising like Botticelli’s Venus in all her glory from the sea. But that word “glimpse” got me thinking about the story of Moses in the Book of Deuteronomy. Moses, as you know, never did enter the promised land. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, however, he “glimpsed it from afar.” And that glimpse was so satisfying that he died happy.