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The master’s ex-manservant Mikhail had scored high marks for servility, but at the end of the day he was a choker, who lacked the requisite ruthlessness. Stefan, on the other hand, who was raised by a family of crocodiles, was right out of central casting. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“There are echoes in Floyd’s killing, in public, in front of his community, in broad daylight, that reverberate from centuries of killings of men and women who look like Floyd...” Lessons From Lynchings nytimes.com/2021/04/04/opini…
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Pope Francis: “Christ’s resurrection is not an event of the past; it contains a vital power which has permeated this world. Where all seems to be dead, signs of the resurrection suddenly spring up. It is an irresistible force...
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Often it seems that God does not exist: all around us we see persistent injustice, evil, indifference and cruelty. But it is also true that in the midst of darkness something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit.
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On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly. However dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads. Each day in our world beauty is born anew, it rises transformed through the storms of history. Values always tend to reappear under new guises,
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Beautiful.
Dear friends: Happy Easter! May the joy of the Risen Christ fill your hearts, and may the message of Easter -- love is stronger than hate, hope is stronger than despair, life is stronger than death and nothing is impossible with God -- resound within you. piped.video/watch?v=pLu9Wl0Q…
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April 4 1968. “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen.”
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Looking forward to this starting on April 15. New GroundTruth Podcast explores the life of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg thegroundtruthproject.org/ne…
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Janet McKenzie’s Images for The Way of the Cross, with reflections by Joan Chitister. orbisbooks.com/the-way-of-th…
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#HolySaturday: Corrie Ten Boom and her sister Betsie were sent to Ravensbruck for hiding Jews. Betsie said: “We must tell people what we have learned here... that there is no pit so deep that he is not deeper still. They will listen to us, Corrie, because we have been there.”
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53 years later, it turns out that the Promised Land is not something you get to, once and for all—it is always something we are claiming, one small promise at a time.
My father’s final speech, given the evening before he was assassinated, 53 years ago today.
“I may not get there with you.”
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“The terrifying prospect of Easter is that God called these women to return to the same world that crucified Jesus with a very dangerous gift: hope in the power of God, the unending reservoir of forgiveness and an abundance of love.” nytimes.com/2021/04/02/opini…
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