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My dad reflecting on the parallels between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine, pondering the odds that nuclear weapons will be used again before he dies.
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An advance peek at the cover of the anniversary edition of my first book. Coming out this fall with Crossroad. So glad to include icons by my friend Wm Hart McNichols!
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A review of “Ukraine Diary,” just out from @OrbisBooks The surprising story of Henri Nouwen’s trips to Ukraine aleteia.org/2023/05/12/the-s…
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Dorothy Day: “Sometimes it takes [just] one step. . .And yet the older I get the more I see that life is made up of many steps, and they are very small affairs, not giant strides. I have ‘kissed a leper’ not once, but twice—consciously—and I can't say I am any the better for it.”
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50 yrs ago today, the day my father’s case was dismissed, Nixon raged that “the sonofabitching thief is made a hero and is going to get off on a mistrial…What in the name of God have we come to?” 👇the conclusion to “Secrets.”
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'Courage is contagious': Daniel Ellsberg's decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn't happen in a vacuum theconversation.com/courage-… via @ConversationUS
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50 yrs ago today, May 11 1973, charges against my father and Tony Russo were dismissed by their judge on the grounds of gross government misconduct. My father had faced 115 yrs in prison for copying the Pentagon Papers.
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At his arrest in 1971 he was asked if he feared jail: "Wouldn't you go to jail if it would help end this war?" As it turned out, he did help end the war, and thanks to Nixon's crimes, he was able to spend the last 50 years working for peace--as he will with his last breath.
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"As I look back on my life, I think there is no greater cause to which I could have dedicated my efforts." commondreams.org/opinion/dan…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Harvey Cox is one of America’s great public theologians of the past fifty years.
#awardwinner #harveycox #silvermedal #afterlife #lifeafterdeath #religion #faith #heaven #gospel
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The last decade of her eventful life: Traveled around the world, including Tanzania, India, Russia; last arrest with Farmworkers; stared down IRS over tax resistance; opened shelter for homeless women; still looking toward horizon, while slowing down and preparing for death....
A collection of Dorothy Day’s “On Pilgrimage” columns from the 1970s. Her cause for canonization is in process.
#dorothyday #winnerwinner #robertellsberg #awardwinner #peace #saint #rolemodel #tbr #readersgonnaread #catholicworker #theseventies @RobertEllsberg
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Veronica Mary Rolf's book is easily the best among many dozens on Julian of Norwich. It's a fabulous read.
For the 650th anniversary of the Revelations of Julian of Norwich, here is my conversation with Veronica Mary Rolf, author of "Julian's Gospel: Illuminating the Life & Revelations of Julian of Norwich." @orbisbooks piped.video/watch?v=kslyaaVK…
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For the 650th anniversary of the Revelations of Julian of Norwich, here is my conversation with Veronica Mary Rolf, author of "Julian's Gospel: Illuminating the Life & Revelations of Julian of Norwich." @orbisbooks piped.video/watch?v=kslyaaVK…
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Here is the video version of my interview with Veronica Mary Rolf about her award-winning book, “Julian’s Gospel”— on the life and revelations of Julian of Norwich. @OrbisBooks piped.video/vb4TbTNeQ1s
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
This book is based on several hundred letters, exchanged on an almost daily basis, during the last three years of Sister Wendy’s life.
#sisterwendy #wendybeckett #letters #winner #awardwinner #nautilusaward #dear #biography #autobiography #tbr #bookstagram @RobertEllsberg
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From last night.
"We are at this moment on a road to Hell." @DanielEllsberg exposed the government's lies about the Vietnam War by leaking the Pentagon Papers. Five decades later, he's worried about where we're headed as a country, and as a human race.
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Today marks the 650th anniv of the revelations of Julian of Norwich, the 14th-century English mystic and hermit, whose writings were only widely discovered in the 20th century. Merton called her with Newman the most significant English theologian. Reflections from the pandemic 👇
#MastersofSocialIsolation (4) Julian of Norwich, a 14th-cen English mystic, spent half her life as an anchoress, enclosed in a cell attached to her local church. From a small window she could receive food and offer spiritual advice, while from another she could view the altar.
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Tonight on the @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC, I'll be joined by legendary whistleblower and activist @DanielEllsberg, to talk about his life and legacy in the wake of his diagnosis with inoperable pancreatic cancer.
From 8pm ET on @MSNBC. Join us.
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