Episode 4 of “The Whistleblower,” the terrific podcast about @DanielEllsberg and the Pentagon Papers.” How Nixon’s overreaction laid the seeds of his own downfall. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Shawn Copeland’s and Bryan Massingale’s #CTSA session on James Cone was 🔥 I was so touched that Bryan used a picture from my last meeting with Cone as an illustration of love. 💕🙏
In "Leaking the Pentagon Papers Was an Assault on Democracy" Gabriel Schoenfeld argues that a functioning democracy requires unfettered ability of the executive branch to lie to Congress and the people and to label its lies "Top Secret." Revealing those nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opini…
lies endangers democracy. Thus, my father @DanielEllsberg deserves condemnation for disrespecting "the fundamental ground rules of a constitutional democracy." Yet which was the greater violation of these ground rules? Protecting lies and secrets, or revealing them?
My reflections: "Lessons from the Pandemic." Has this crisis enlarged our imaginations and enabled us to believe that another way of writing history is possible?sacredheartuniversity.typepa…
4 Honorable Mentions among the 17 @OrbisBooks Book Awards from @CM_Association include: @jonmsweeney "Jesus Was Not Killed by the Jews"; @Pontifex "Blessed Amazonia"; Bruce Epperly "Mystics in Action," and Bro. Joe Hoover, SJ, "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?" (1 of his 2 awards)
Book Award winners from the @CM_Association for @OrbisBooks authors included these Third Place Winners: Glenn Sauer for "Points of Contact"; @sr_simone for "Hunger for Hope"; and "The Way of Suffering" (Mike Leach, Doris Goodnough, and @jamestkeane, eds.)
Congratulations to @sr_simone for her 3rd Place (tie) award for General Interest book from the Assoc. of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards. Her @OrbisBooks title, "Hunger for Hope." My interview with her here: piped.video/watch?v=PXrGl0Gx…
Congratulations to Jim Forest for his 1st place (tie) for Biography from the Assoc of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards for his memoir, "Writing Straight with Crooked Lines." @OrbisBooks. My interview with him: piped.video/watch?v=5nBloeGr…
Though our expressions in this screenshot belie the seriousness of the subject😗 I am grateful to @jordandenari for a terrific conversation about her wonderful book.
“One thing we know, which the White Man may one day discover—our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot.”—Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish, d. June 7 1866