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German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis on April 9 1945 for his part in a conspiracy to overthrow Hitler. In a reckoning written in 1943 he wrote: “We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds: we have been drenched by many storms;
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...we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses or cynics
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One of the best accounts of the true story of my father @DanielEllsberg and the Pentagon Papers. (50 years ago in June.) Thank you @BenBradleeJr
New revelations are altering the heroic narrative surrounding the historic leak of the Pentagon Papers. “The process was more contentious, combative, and duplicitous than was previously understood,” @benbradleejr writes. nyer.cm/HLi0sNz
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“When I got better acquainted with the whites, when I realized they had no respect for the rights of the Indian; would take away his home...murder him and his children, despoil his women...I then readily understood how they would kill the son of the Great Spirit as they did."
A White man once asked Spotted Tail of the Lakota if heard about Jesus. He said, “I’ve heard all about him. How good he was. The great things he did. I also heard how the White man killed him. We never would’ve done that. We never would have murdered the Son of the Great Spirit”
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Remembering Rev. Richard Deats, a life-long peace movement leader and influential teacher of nonviolence wagingnonviolence.org/2021/0…
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A great article! Thanks Heidi.
@RobertEllsberg currently talking about his father. Some of that story here:
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Tonight!
Robert Ellsberg, “Saint-Watcher,” to Deliver 14th Annual Commonweal Lecture, April 7 fairfield.edu/news/archive/2…
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Today is my father @DanielEllsberg’s 90th birthday! There were times--the 2 yrs he was in Vietnam, or later, when the Nixon admin. deemed him “the most dangerous man in America,” when I feared for his life. Yet he was willing to risk his life and freedom to end an unjust war.
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His memoir, “Secrets” is not just a story of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, but a classic account of conversion—how the consummate “insider” relinquished his status, security, and career in response to the call of a higher loyalty. He sacrificed much but regained his soul.
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He has spent the past 50 yrs working tirelessly to alert the world to the dangers of nuclear war, often feeling like Cassandra: blessed with the gift of seeing the future, cursed by fear that no one will believe him. But still ready to do anything that might make a difference.
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He has never felt that he has done enough. I was privileged to help him finish his 2nd great memoir, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner,” his final effort to share all he knows about the madness of our nuclear war machine.
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He has always believed the odds of humanity’s survival are slim. But he believes that hope is something you do. Hopeful actions enlarge the space for miracles—and we have seen miracles: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Apartheid... even the unlikely way that Nixon's
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backlash against my father (via the Plumbers) helped lead to his resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. My father’s hopeful actions have taught me the power of truth and of living witness. But I am grateful for his other lessons:
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Today’s gospel tells the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, and how they recognized the risen Jesus in the breaking of bread. Henri Nouwen used this story as the basis of his book on “the eucharistic life,” *With Burning Hearts.* @OrbisBooks (Art by Duccio.)
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Rest in peace, Hans Kung (1928-2021): "There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions and no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions." @OrbisBooks
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Tomorrow: My lecture, "Walking with the Saints: My Writing Life." Register below. Will be wild!
Robert Ellsberg, “Saint-Watcher,” to Deliver 14th Annual Commonweal Lecture, April 7 fairfield.edu/news/archive/2…
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Hemingway never wrote a series of satirical tweets about Donald Trump. Just saying. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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