Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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That is going to be my new go-to excuse for all forms of procrastination. “You will get that [insert: budget/groceries/manuscript/birthday present] I promised you, but right now I’m changing a flat tire!”✅
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Willi Graf, 25, was beheaded on 10/12 1943 for his part in the White Rose, a circle of idealistic youth who tried to awaken fellow Germans to the evils of the Nazi regime. Even as a child Graf, a devout Catholic, had tried to resist his country’s steady moral corruption.
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Thanks to Univ Dayton professor Sandra Yocum for this opportunity to talk about the dialogue between faith and culture, the mission of @OrbisBooks, learning from saints, and finding hope in the message of Pope Francis. My life in 20 mins. ecommons.udayton.edu/faith_c…
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Today is @thichnhathanh's 95th birthday. Almost 50 years ago I knocked on the door of his apartment in a Paris suburb. He welcomed me in and talked with me about mindfulness and the way of peace. That encounter planted many seeds.
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20 yrs ago I edited "THICH NHAT HANH: Essential Writings" @OrbisBooks. That day also led to my friendship with Jim Forest, whose "EYES OF COMPASSION: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh" we published this year. Happy birthday Thay! Present moment, beautiful moment!
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prevarication and ruin...We feel we must disagree with those prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world were at hand…The Council now beginning rises in the Church like daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. It is now only dawn.
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One time the master asked a holy man what he could do to inherit eternal life. “Don’t cheat, lie, rob your workers, or kill your enemies,” he said. The master smiled broadly, noting that there was no mention of adultery or treason..” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Many people have said this but nice to see it confirmed in the Sydney Daily Herald. “Ellsberg lives up to his good looks but the best is yet to come.” smh.com.au/sport/racing/ells…
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Mollie Rogers (Mother Mary Joseph), founder of the @MaryknollSister d 10/9 1955. "There is nothing more astonishing than life, just as it is, nothing more miraculous than growth and change and development, just as revealed to us. And as happens so often when we stop...
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An excellent memorial to Liberation theologian Pablo Richard. At @OrbisBooks we published several books by him, but more, he served as our principal advisor on Latin American theology. A brilliant, courageous, beautiful man. ncronline.org/news/opinion/l… via @NCRonline
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