Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
Joined December 2016
- Tweets 11,616
- Following 619
- Followers 8,969
- Likes 9,606
It is said that the fox knows many things while the hedgehog knows one big thing. The Trump may know everything about nothing. But at least he knows it better than anybody.
according to Donald, he’s the #1 expert on:
Taxes, Construction, Campaign finance, Drones, Technology, U.S. History, Infrastructure, ISIS, Facebook, Renewables, Polls, Courts, Golf, Banks, Nuclear arms, The system, Debt, Politicians...
Trump Is The Expert On Everything
Trump is the #1 expert on everything, according to Donald Trump
1
The story of the Holy Magi who came bearing gifts for the newborn king. They were careful to bypass Herod on their way home. Yet because of them the Holy Family had to flee into Egypt and all the male babies in Bethlehem were massacred.
1
3
16
Get’s it completely right on Jerry Falwell Jr.’s MAGA religion. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
4
12
Lanza del Vasto died on Jan 5 1981. In his youth he traveled to India, seeking the meaning of life. There he met Gandhi and returned to Europe determined to make his ideas known in the West. He formed the Community of the Ark, an oasis of peace and reconciliation...
1
8
1
11
Living off the land, with no electricity, wearing homespun clothes, he and his companions believed nonviolence was a way of acting that derived from a way of being. Arrested many times for protests against war, torture, and for rights of conscientious objection...
2
1
3
Bet it was a life-changing experience for many of those high school kids. Who knows how many of them are now aspiring to be broke, jail-bird, justice-loving, friends of Jesus!
2
The life of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native-born saint in the US, was marked by sorrows, beginning with the death of her husband. When she converted to Catholicism, she was disowned by her family, leaving her penniless with the care of her five children. She found a home
1
3
29
in Baltimore, where she started a parish school, and later a religious congregation, the Sisters of Charity. But the death of her 16 yr old daughter brought her close to despair. She was consoled by a priest who assured her of her "celestial commission." She died Jan 4, 1821:
1
1
18
Evangelicals have hired their own Goliath washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
2
4
1
6
And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go to?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? Am I wrong?
And you may say yourself, "My God! What have I done?"
1
22
Albert Camus died Jan 4 1940. In his novel The Plague he describes the experience of a modern port city in Algeria as it is besieged by bubonic plague. The disease— a counterpart to the German occupation of France—is also a symbol for the human condition.
2
8
22
For Camus, such a world imposes a solemn duty of revolt, the refusal to consent to a condition which tortures innocents and reduces the life of each person to absurdity. The heroes of the novel are those who resist the plague.
1
6
But the plague has a spiritual counterpart— represented by those who accommodate themselves or who put their trust in a disengaged piety that makes them implicit collaborators in evil. “What the world expects of Christians is that they should speak out loud and clear...
1
11