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The @OrbisBooks lives loudly in this thread! 🤗
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Very excited about “Facing Apocalypse” by @Prof_Keller. Available next month. (Void in event of apocalypse.) @OrbisBooks
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Thanks to @sr_simone for always promoting justice, solidarity, and compassion. And for her book, "Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation, and the Common Good." @OrbisBooks Our conversation here: bit.ly/3d74a4R
#NunsontheBus led by @sr_simone: 7 bus tours in 9 years. Over 400 events across the country! #ThankYouSrSimone Going the Extra Mile for Justice: Celebrating Sister Simone Campbell, SSS Friday, March 26, 2021 at 5:00 PM Eastern / 2:00 PM Pacific networklobby.org/celebratesr…
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Ida B. Wells, who died March 25, 1931, was born into slavery in MS. She went on to become a tireless champion of racial justice, particularly in documenting and exposing the practice of lynching. For a hundred years Congress has failed to pass a federal anti-lynching law.
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In 1922 an anti-lynching law died in the Senate after a filibuster by Southern Democrats. This inaugurated a tradition of using filibusters to thwart civil rights legislation. In 2020 the Emmett Till Antilynching Act was passed in the House.
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It was blocked in the Senate by Sen Rand Paul who argued that it would "cheapen the meaning of lynching" through an overly broad definition.
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Mayor Bill DeBlasio on naming a new Staten Island ferry after Dorothy Day. She "lived a life of tremendous selflessness and service. I can think of no greater way to honor her beloved legacy than by having her name on this new ferry boat connecting Manhattan and Staten Island.”🤔
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No. Thanks for sharing!
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Sister Annabel Laity was the first Western person ordained as a monastic disciple in #ThichNhatHanh’s Vietnamese Zen lineage. I was moved by our conversation today about her new book, MINDFULNESS: Walking with Jesus and Buddha. @OrbisBooks. Will post soon!
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Feast of the Annunciation. Inspired Fritz Eichenberg’s cover art for Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. There is no reference to this scene in the book, yet he recognized the turning point was the discovery of her unexpected pregnancy. “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.”
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3/25 1965, Viola Liuzzo, 39, a white housewife and mother of 5 from Detroit, was killed by the KKK, supporting the struggle for voting rights in Selma, AL. Without telling her family, she had set out in her Oldsmobile in response to a call for volunteers after Bloody Sunday.
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“It’s everybody’s fight. There are too many people who just stand around talking.” Her killers were quickly caught since an FBI informant was with them—yet acquitted by an all white jury. Yet her witness added helped passage of the Voting Rights Act. The struggle continues.
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I like to think of St. Oscar Romero as the patron saint of @orbisbooks. Here are four top books about him.
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Here are three books of his writings. More here: bit.ly/3tQ2rrb
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Here is a link to my new "one-on-one" interview with Jesuit playwright Bill Cain, SJ about his "The Diary of Jesus Christ." @OrbisBooks I was so deeply moved by his book that I spent most of the conversation just gushing about my favorite parts. Watch: piped.video/watch?v=FfOJ2K8u…
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Every year in @GiveUsThisDayLP I write about St Oscar Romero for his feast day. Today I reflected in the significance of his being named a martyr.
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