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The master was automatically attracted to beautiful women--servants, wives of friends. He would just start kissing them, like a magnet. Sometimes they would resist. “But when you’re the master, they let you do it,” he observed. “You can do anything.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Wonder if this will stimulate sales or draw greater attention to #TolstoysTalesofTrump. Not just a heretic but a very unfair, fake, and overrated novelist. catholicherald.co.uk/magazin…
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New @OrbisBooks. What is striking in reading these courageous testimonials is how clearly they saw the contradiction between Christian faith and slavery—and the fact that in their own time they were such a small minority. And the fact, sadly, that their voices remain relevant.
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Immediately the heavens opened with a flood that made travel impossible. “May God spare you, Sister,” Benedict said, “What have you done?” “I asked you but you were unwilling to listen to me,” she said. “I asked my Lord and He listened to me.” And so her wish was fulfilled.
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“It’s a useful rule that when our religious faith tells us to do the thing that would be easy and convenient, we are almost certainly mistaking the voice of our own self-interest for the voice of God.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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At first I thought this story about a football coach who wants to learn from Hitler’s leadership skills (“2nd to none”) was an outlying joke. But in light of shorturl.at/yGLT8 I realize that this was naive. The application of these “lessons” are in plain sight.
When I’m interviewing new hires, I always find it is smart to determine if Adolf Hitler is among the top 3 people from history they would invite to dinner. #RedFlag washingtonpost.com/sports/20…
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I receive an instant alert when I have been appropriately corrected on Twitter. Fortunately, seldom goes off.
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The master had begun his career by firing his own parents, and even after many years he liked to refine his craft. He had his secretary draft his own dismissal. He fired his nephew “like a dog” (telling him to fetch a ball and then locking him outside). #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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FD of St Josephine Bakhita who died as a nun in Italy on Feb 8 1947, a long distance from the day at 9 when she was kidnapped from her village in Sudan and sold into slavery. After a succession of brutal masters she was bought by an Italian family who took her back to Italy.
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There she first heard the gospel and divined God’s will that she be free. When her family planned to return to Sudan, Bakhita refused. The mistres sued in court for her “property.” Only then did Bakhita learn that slavery was illegal in Italy. She was already free.
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Birthday of Martin Buber, Feb 8 1878. “God’s speech to men penetrates what happens in the life of each one of us, and all that happens in the world around us, biographical and historical, and makes it for you and me into instruction, message, demand.”
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The master’s hairdresser—a veteran of the theater—was the highest paid servant in his employ (save for his food taster). And after many years of service he retained the master’s loyalty despite his failing eyesight. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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From wandering astrologers the master heard of a distant village where a star reportedly bore his name. Go and find this star, he instructed them, and report to me so that I too may go and worship it. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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