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My reflections on St Antony of Egypt in @GiveUsThisDayLP
Read this short biography of St. Antony of Egypt in today's "Blessed Among Us." blog.giveusthisday.org/2022/…
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“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
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Dorothy Day
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Rev. Bryan Massingale. This MLK Weekend, I Still Have Dreams newwaysministry.org/2022/01/…
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A wonderful profile of peacemaker Randy Kehler, whose witness inspired my father to risk prison by copying the Pentagon Papers. gazettenet.com/LT-RandyKehle…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
My father didn’t just happen upon death.
White supremacists assassinated him to silence his voice & stop his work of eradicating the “Triple Evils”: Racism, Militarism, Poverty.
Those who unrepentantly benefited from these evils railed against their eradication. They still do.
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Got ‘em. Published ‘em. 👏
James Cone was Right! – Complete Works Giveaway trippfuller.com/giveaways/ja… via @HomebrewedXnty
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One year later. …Or the wind.
The hypocrisy of the master’s radical critics was incredible. An earthquake caused far more destruction and suffering than he had, yet nobody called for arresting the earth. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Jim Forest memorialized today in l'Osservatore Romano!
Jim Forest (1941-2022) - We owe him a lot… Pacifista, giornalista e biografo di giganti osservatoreromano.va/it/news…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
...and pretty much every significant religious figure in the last 60 years, often through his work as head of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Jim was also the biographer of many of them, and authored among the best biographies of Berrigan, Day and Merton...
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Dear friends: I'm sorry to share the news that a legendary Catholic activist and author has died: Jim Forest, at age 80.
It's hard to sum up his incredible life, which brought him into contact with friends like Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Dan Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh...
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"Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all...
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This book saved my life. It made me fall in love with theology again. It made me see the sacredness of black literature, art, and life. He showed me Jesus in black. I am so grateful for James Cone. He did so much for so many of us.
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Thank you for highlighting his book and raising his voice and message. #JamesCone lives!
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
This book saved my life. It made me fall in love with theology again. It made me see the sacredness of black literature, art, and life. He showed me Jesus in black. I am so grateful for James Cone. He did so much for so many of us.
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the death of one our beloved authors Jim Forest #restinpeace #jimforest #orbisbooks @jhforest1 #alwaysinourhearts
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Among Jim Forest's many gifts was his sharing the gifts he received from others--such as a beautiful letter he received from Thomas Merton in 1966. In 1976 I reprinted an excerpt from that letter in the Catholic Worker and added the title, "Letter to a Young Activist."
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That excerpt went on to become the most oft-reprinted text by Merton. It has helped, counseled, and inspired countless people--and it still does. Jim expanded on that story and Merton's lessons for peacemakers in his @OrbisBooks title: "The Root of War is Fear."
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More about the letter here: jimandnancyforest.com/2014/1…. And more about Merton's correspondence with him in Gordon Oyer's "Signs of Hope."
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My friend Jim Forest died today at 80. We met 50 years ago when I was 16. I grew up to become the editor of his more than a dozen books, including classic biographies of his mentors, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan.
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A friendship one is blessed to have once in a lifetime. And so many others would say the same. He belongs among the great peacemakers whom he knew and befriended. May we share a portion of his faith, courage, humor, and humanity.
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Very sorry for your loss! What a great soul he must have been to count you and these giants as his friends.
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Great soul is the right name. And he so repaid all the gifts of love and friendship he had received.
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But I owe him so much more. It was he who led me to Dorothy Day and pointed me toward my vocation. He accompanied me through all the best and hardest times of my life—in the latter times, sometimes with several letters a day.
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A friendship one is blessed to have once in a lifetime. And so many others would say the same. He belongs among the great peacemakers whom he knew and befriended. May we share a portion of his faith, courage, humor, and humanity.
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