Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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From my Cat Stevens phase— 1978, the next day my Catholic Worker brother Brian Terrell and I were arrested blocking railroad tracks at the Rocky Flats nuclear plant in CO. Where they make nuclear triggers for H bombs. I spent 16 days fasting in solitary in the Jefferson Co jail.
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Happy 95th birthday to Gustavo Gutiérrez, with thanks for yr option for the poor, yr witness to the God of Life, and for helping us to read the Gospel with new eyes.
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Servant of God Julia Greeley, one of 6 African Americans on the road to canonization.m, died June 7 1918. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP (art: Anthony VanAndale)
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In my father’s office there is a closet piled to the ceiling with boxes of photos. I spent hours gleaning for traces of my own life. Found only a handful of pictures of us together.
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See my publisher’s letter, highlighting Jon Sobrino and offering 25% off his titles, including his latest, “Theology without Deception.” Www.orbisbooks.com
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Thomas Berry, priest and “geologian,” helped to tell the “universe story.” He believed the ecological crisis of our time was also a spiritual crisis. Developing the consciousness necessary to meet this crisis was the “great work” of our age. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Helen Keller died June 1 1968. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP . “I know that life is given us so that may grow in love.”
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The June 2023 issue of @GiveUsThisDayLP. Some of my “Blessed Among Us” include Julia Greeley, G.M. Hopkins, Sigrid Undset, Martin Buber, the Soweto Martyrs, Thomas Berry and Helen Keller.
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