Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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Delighted to join the Maryknoll Srs in honoring @OrbisBooks author Diarmuid O’Murchu, Irish priest, multidisciplinary visionary, prolific author on implications of evolution for the universe and Christian faith.
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“Sister Wendy and me: an epistolary friendship.” Excerpts from my new book, “Dearest Sister Wendy… A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship,” @orbisbooks, @ChurchTimes churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2… from @churchtimes
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Mother Mary Lange, founder, Oblate Sisters of Providence, one of six African American candidates for canonization, d Feb 3 1882. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Alfred Delp, SJ was hanged as a traitor on Feb 2 1945 for his part in an anti-Nazi group. “The inner law of freedom sings that no death can kill us. Life is eternal.” My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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St Brigid (525) abbess of Kildare, a double monastery of men and women, is traditionally depicted with a bishop’s crosier based on the story that a bishop in her community ordained her as a fellow bishop. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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February issue of @GiveUsThisDayLP. My “Blessed Among Us” this month include Dr Paul Farmer, Mr Rogers, Sr Marie Augusta Neal, Mary Lange, martyr Alfred Delp SJ, Brother Lawrence, Michelangelo, St Brigid, and a dozen more.
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For Thomas Merton's birthday: My reflections for the 2019 ITMS conference: "The Gate of Heaven is Everywhere," on Merton's unfolding quest for holiness, and what that means today. bit.ly/3YdtGLs (Icon: William Hart McNichols)
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At Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti) in New Delhi, where Gandhi was assassinated Jan 30 1948, footsteps trace the path to where he met his assassin. He had wished that at the moment of his death he would have the name of God on his lips. So it was.
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In the new introduction to this edition, first published in India for the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, I wrote, “Without Gandhi I would not be a Christian.” @OrbisBooks Very good review here: digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cg…
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Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated 75 years ago today by Hindu nationalists enraged by his efforts to promote reconciliation between Hindus and Muslims. But were his assassins also abetted by elements of the new state, worried about Gandhi’s radical vision? @OrbisBooks
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Pope Francis calls the Beatitudes a Christian’s identity card. My reading of the Beatitudes via the lives of the saints and their social relevance. John Dear and Robert Ellsberg piped.video/tzuQvahLPLo via @YouTube
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FD of St Andrei Rublev, 15th-century Russian monk and one of the greatest iconographers. This icon was found in 1918 on the board used in the stairway of a barn.
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A flag bearing the words "A man was lynched yesterday" was flown from the national headquarters of the NAACP between 1936 and 1938 to mark lynchings of black people in the United States.
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She said my job was to make sure she didn’t sound like a fool. That was the easiest part. She didn’t always like my choices— especially if the articles were too long. I admit it was eccentric to devote whole issue to Sacco and Vanzetti. But she liked my centenary of Peter Marin.
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Other highlight: my interview with E.F. Schumacher, Robert Coles on Simone Weil, my dad on neutron bomb, Nouwen on community, reprint of Dorothy’s story from 1927 on birth of her daughter. And 1st pub of Merton’s letter to Jim Forest that I called “Letter to a Young Activist.”
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