@RobertEllsberg @RobertEllsberg

Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.

Joined December 2016
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Replying to @OlgaMSegura @FairfieldU
Powerful and prophetic lecture! 🔥
Replying to @HeidiSchlumpf @NapaInstitute
Come for the wine and cigars. Stay for the plenary indulgence!
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My reflections on Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin.: "I felt bigger than myself. I was suffering for a cause, and the pain and fear no longer mattered. I was not alone." americamagazine.org/faith/20… via @americamag
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Replying to @johnmilbank3
Wow!
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My interview with Kathy Coffey, author of “More Hidden Women of the Gospels.” facebook.com/orbisbooks/vide… Enjoy!
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For anyone who wonders how Merton's 1962 mimeographed edition of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" ended up published by @orbisbooks in 2004, here is a fascinating story (in which your Tweeter appears at several points along the way). piped.video/MxbU54n3VO0
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The ongoing fruit of that story was the decision to publish another one of Merton's famous samizdat editions, "The Cold War Letters." Both books, from the early 1960s, have amazing relevance to our time.
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Replying to @nimperatori
During an early zoom interview last year my wife thought she could evade the camera by slithering across the floor. Viewers could see that something was going on, but they couldn’t quite tell what it was.
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French Dominican Marie Joseph Lagrange, founder in 1890 of the École Biblique in Jerusalem, d. March 10 1938. There he laid the groundwork for the eventual acceptance of modern biblical criticism in the church. He walked a razor’s edge, hoping to avoid condemnation while opening
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a path that others might follow. Urged not to publish work disputing traditional attribution of the Pentateuch to Moses, he replied: “Is this really how truth is served? Is it not the task of the present to prepare for the future? Can we ever move forward without taking steps?”
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His bibliography listed over 1700 items. He did not live to see his work vindicated at Vatican II. But apart from his biblical studies, he stands as a heroic example of the Catholic scholar, equally committed to tradition, the community of faith, and the pursuit of truth.
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Replying to @BroTimFSC
Good choices!
Replying to @ChristnNitemare @RightWingWatch
In heaven you won’t have to worry about government regulations on health and safety because your workers are already dead.
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On Holy Women. For #InternationalWomensDay parabola.org/2020/01/28/holy…. “There are of course as many types of saints as there are people. Each offers a unique glimpse of the face of God, each enlarges our moral imagination; each offers new insights into the meaning ...

Holy Women | PARABOLA

Parabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world's myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the...

parabola.org
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and possibilities of human life. To the extent women’s names have been forgotten, their stories left untold, their dreams, visions, and wisdom marginalized, these possibilities remain unknown and unfulfilled.”
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End of a long day.
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The patriarchal restriction of our imagination and imagery of God is deeply connected with the patriarchal distribution of authority and power in the church and society.
James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ
8 Mar 2021
New: God is not a man. God is not a woman either. While Jesus Christ was (and is) a man and invites us to call God the Father, that does not mean that God is male or that God is only masculine. A look at feminine imagery of God. #InternationalWomenDay americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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An amazing story, includes a moving video interview with my dad, @DanielEllsberg sfchronicle.com/local/articl…
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He said they feel like “this should be known, no one else is willing to put it out, so it’s up to us to do it,” he said. “That’s the spirit that can propel itself across generations and help preserve democracy.”
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Tree watching.
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