Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.

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She fell from the sky. The forest caught her. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/06/18/scien…
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Had coffee with a mystic. New book coming out next spring. ⁦@RevDrMatthewFox
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On June 17 2015 a young white supremacist interrupted a Bible study at "Mother Emanuel" AME Church in Charleston, SC and killed 9 African American members of the church including pastor Clementa Pinckney. "I'll give you something to pray about," he said. Never forget.
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Accounts of my father's copying the Pentagon Papers rarely consider the impact of his exposure to the the tradition of nonviolent action and the Gandhian theory of conflict. What if we taught this in school? wagingnonviolence.org/2021/0…
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Very moving and inspiring program. Pentagon Papers 50th Anniversary piped.video/yMMC4lkPl-Y via @YouTube
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Wonderful that we got to spend this historic day together. 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers. June 13 1971. @DanielEllsberg
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Call me Ishmael.
‘A humpback whale tried to eat me’: A Cape Cod lobster diver was briefly trapped in the mouth of a whale trib.al/0UuqONL
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Asked what he makes of Francis pontificate, Jim Forest tells Lay Community of St Benedict: “It’s as if Dorothy Day was made pope.”
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My father has organized his library around some of his preoccupations: catastrophe; genocide; doomsday; lies; bombing civilians, the problem of evil, etc. Pretty standard.
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The Pentagon Papers first appeared in the @nytimes 50 years ago on June 13 1971. My part of the story began two years earlier, with reverberations that are still being felt.
"I clearly remember the first time I handled classified documents. That day in October 1969 stands out for other reasons, as it was also the first time I was allowed to handle a Xerox machine." THE PENTAGON PAPERS AFTER 50 YRS. @americamag @DanielEllsberg bit.ly/2RXdSQt
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In 1983 the US bishops prepared an important pastoral letter on nuclear war, “The Challenge of Peace.” That was essentially the last time they treated this as a matter of urgent moral concern. Thanks to @CardinalBCupich for taking this existential challenge seriously.
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Replying to @dcosacchi
Great job, Dan!
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@dcosacchi at #CTSA gave a powerful presentation on Dorothy Day, emphasizing her defense of workers and her challenge to the US bishops.
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Anne Frank was born June 12 1929. The date of her death in 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is unknown. My reflection last year in my series on #MastersofSocialIsolation. “I want to go on living after my death.” This wish was fulfilled.
#MastersofSocialIsolation #10. In a time when Jewish children in Europe were hunted like vermin, Anne Frank did not choose her isolation. With her own and another family she was confined for 2 years in a “secret annex” in Amsterdam, never going out, keeping still all day.
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