Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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Wherein I tell the story of how I came to write about saints, and what I learned from them—both those I have known, and those I discovered through books. Mostly about how they teach us to read the story God is writing with our own lives. @OrbisBooks
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When the university declined to grant him an honorary degree the master created his own university. The curriculum focused mostly on the secrets of his own success—no secret to those servants old enough to recall that he had inherited his father’s estate. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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In high school I read Jim Douglass’ “The Nonviolent Cross,” helping me see how Gandhi’s “Truth Force” cohered with the gospel of Jesus. In college I studied with Gene Sharp, preeminent student of nonviolent action. I focused on Gandhi’s political and economic philosophy.
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In 1975 I decided to leave college to join the resurgent Gandhian revolution in Bihar led by JP Narayan. But then a State of Emergency was declared in India. I could not get a visa. Out of school, I decided to visit the Catholic Worker in NY—a community in the Gandhian spirit.
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My interest in India did not wane. My 1st arrest occurred at the Indian Consulate, protesting with other Indians for democracy. At Dorothy Day’s suggestion I began to write articles about Gandhian philosophy for the CW. She named me managing editor (I was 20). I stayed for 5 yrs.
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Those years deeply changed the direction of my life. Still, many years later, now the editor at @OrbisBooks, one of my first books was “Gandhi on Christianity.” I also published Jim Douglass’ “Gandhi and the Unspeakable.”
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And now dear readers: I am going to INDIA! The occasion—a local publisher is celebrating Gandhi’s 150th birthday by reprinting my book as well as Jim’s. They have invited me for the launch. Please pray for me and hold me in your thoughts. Bowing to the hand of Providence.
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English Quaker Elizabeth Fry d 10/12 1845. From her first visit to Newgate Prison she saw conditions that filled her with shame and indignation—women crowded in fetid cells, in rags, sleeping on the bare floor. She saw a woman strip clothing from a dead infant to clothe her own.
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She devoted the rest of her life to the cause of prison reform—vs. those who said this was no work for a woman, that prisoners were savages, that improving conditions would remove “the dread of punishment in the criminal class.”
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In the sunshine of youth, everyone had admired the master’s “Midas Touch.” Now it seemed the chill of autumn had arrived; could winter be far? But when such thoughts intruded he reminded himself that what was true for other men did not apply to him. #TolstoysTalesOfTrump
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“It is those who accuse me of corruption who are actually corrupt!” For years this retort—or its many variants: “the real rascals,” “rogues,” “liars,” or “swindlers”—had effectively served to confound the master’s critics. Or so he believed. #TolstoysTalesOfTrump
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Here is a trailer for "Revolution from the Heart," an outstanding PBS documentary about #DorothyDay by Martin Doblmeier. Looking forward to being on a panel next month at a screening at #AAR2019. vimeo.com/364829549
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