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On my way for the maiden voyage of the new Staten Island ferry, the #DorothyDay. For anyone wondering about the connection: SI is where Dorothy lived with the man she loved, where her daughter was born, where she found herself beginning to pray and decided to become a Catholic.
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Later it was the site of a Catholic Worker farm. Later still she kept a small house in the Spanish Camp where she liked to escape for rest and reflection.
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Remembering #JamesCone on the fifth anniversary of his death, April 18 2018. “I worked with James Cone for over 30 years. For at least 20 of those years, I am not sure that he really trusted me.” americamagazine.org/arts-cul…
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Five years since the death of my friend and author #JamesCone, “father” of Black Liberation. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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A wonderful account of the editor who published Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr, Howard Thurman, and so many modern classics. Thanks to @sprothero for a fascinating story. And may this inspire a new genre of bios of the great religion editors! I would read them all.
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My interview with @OrbisBooks author Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo about her new book: ECOMARTYRDOM IN THE AMERICAS: Living and Dying for our Common Home. piped.video/watch?v=ZlrfFGtb…
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“If I had a tombstone, I’ve always thought what it would say is: ‘He became a member of the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements,’” he said, wapo.st/3Ndjd0w
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A happy memory: 2013 when #HarryBelafonte , Joan Baez and my dad were honored by the War Resisters League. Belafonte quoted King who was accused of “preaching to the choir.” “If I stop preaching to the choir they might stop singing.” He told the activists: “Keep singing.”
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Käthe Kollwitz, one of Dorothy Day’s favorite artists. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP “One day a new idea will arise and there will be an end to all wars. I am convinced of this.”
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The great Rebecca Chopp: The new face of Alzheimer’s: Early stage patients who refuse to surrender washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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