Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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Unbearably sad.
"Remarkable... Heartrending… Žbanić seeks to convey the magnitude of a historic tragedy — the worst European massacre since World War II — without turning violence into spectacle." - NPR
For Your Consideration for Best International Feature
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Yesterday the robin shifted his base of operations to the windows on the opposite side of the house, thus casting doubt on the “attacking-his-own-reflection” theory. Now day 7 of his continuous campaign.
For those interested in the importunate robin at my kitchen door—he never actually stopped. 5 solid days of knocking on the windows every 10 secs. or so from sunrise to sunset, crying “What I do is me; for that I came.” (Hopkins)
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This anti-lynching banner was hung from the headquarters of the NAACP in Manhattan from the early 1900s until 1938.
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Ven Cornelia Connelly, founder of the Society of the Holy Child d 4/18/1879. “As you step through the muddy streets, love God with your feet; and when your hands toil, love Him with your hands; and when you teach the little children, love Him in His little ones.”
Cornelia Connelly: patron saint of women with creepy husbands. americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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I was delighted to discover @KolbeTimes (as in St Maximilian Kolbe), which is dedicated to “Faith, Arts &Justice.” Here is a new interview they did with me about saints and heroes of the moral life. piped.video/DYnCY9ZGsFw
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What if you lived with the knowledge that there was a bullet waiting for you—at any moment, in every routine action, and it didn’t matter what you were doing or how you responded? And all you wanted was to get home safe? @TwoDistantFilm
My latest column is about The brilliant film, Two Distant Strangers' and how it shows just how deeply we’re stuck in a horrendous deja vu cycle of police violence. Written by @Travon, this @netflix film is necessary viewing right now washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Sister Wendy Beckett’s reflections on St Bernadette (from our correspondence, which I am editing).
I asked Sr. Wendy if she had ever been to Lourdes: "I don't want to travel. My love for Bernadette has nothing to do with Lourdes. Although spiritually Lourdes was the greatest event of her life, in spiritual terms a transforming encounter, in worldly terms it was a disaster...
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Here is the first episode of a fantastic new podcast about my father @DanielEllsberg, “The Whistleblower,” for the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers. Features a tape of me playing theme from Batman on the trombone! “The Lying Machine” @GroundTruth thegroundtruthproject.org/th…
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For those interested in the importunate robin at my kitchen door—he never actually stopped. 5 solid days of knocking on the windows every 10 secs. or so from sunrise to sunset, crying “What I do is me; for that I came.” (Hopkins)
A robin flying into the kitchen door yesterday afternoon, repeated the same hopeless effort every few seconds, despite all efforts to deter him. He continued this for 4 straight hours until dark. And now at dawn he has resumed his quest with even greater persistence. Meaning?
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FD of St Benedict Joseph Labre (4/16/1783), a religious vagabond who wandered Europe visiting shrines. A kind of “holy fool” who never bathed and ate what he could find he was to all appearances a homeless beggar—except to those who bothered to know him. (Icon: Wm Hart McNichols)
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Excellent article: “This is environmental racism’: How a protest in a North Carolina farming town sparked a national movement” washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Coming soon @OrbisBooks
The website is up for my forthcoming book on Islamophobia, written for a Christian audience. You can pre-order now and publication day is May 19th!
islamophobiabook.com/
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My Commonweal Lecture, "Walking with the Saints: My Writing Life" is now available on YouTube. Fully illustrated! piped.video/9LSQdRi0ktk via @YouTube
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Five @orbisbooks titles listed among the finalists for the Association of Catholic Publishers "Excellence in Publishing Awards." Congrats to @ctrlamb, @sr_simone, @jhforest1, @MassimoFaggioli,@marcusmescher! Waiting for the good news in June.
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