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Tomorrow: My lecture, "Walking with the Saints: My Writing Life." Register below. Will be wild!
Robert Ellsberg, “Saint-Watcher,” to Deliver 14th Annual Commonweal Lecture, April 7 fairfield.edu/news/archive/2…
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Hemingway never wrote a series of satirical tweets about Donald Trump. Just saying. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Honored that @RevJJackson will be my guest on @MadangPodcast today.
He discusses #KeepingHopeAlive which is a living historical document.
It contains some of his sermons, speeches & his 2 DNC speeches.
Thank you Rev. Jackson for your life of service. amazon.com/Keeping-Hope-Aliv…
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The master’s ex-manservant Mikhail had scored high marks for servility, but at the end of the day he was a choker, who lacked the requisite ruthlessness. Stefan, on the other hand, who was raised by a family of crocodiles, was right out of central casting. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“There are echoes in Floyd’s killing, in public, in front of his community, in broad daylight, that reverberate from centuries of killings of men and women who look like Floyd...” Lessons From Lynchings nytimes.com/2021/04/04/opini…
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A Black WWII veteran was beaten and blinded, fueling the civil rights movement washingtonpost.com/history/2…
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On April 4, 1967, MLK Jr. gave one of the most important speeches in American history, the “Riverside speech,” drawing heavily from a draft by civil rights leader and historian Dr. Vincent G. Harding. Harding had written it over Christmas vacation in 1966. sojo.net/magazine/april-2007…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
[This is Daniel's son @MichaelEllsberg] This Wednesday, April 7th, Daniel Ellsberg turns 90. Please leave him a short video birthday greeting via the link below. I'll unveil these to him on his birthday. Thank you! :) tribute.co/danielellsberg/
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Pope Francis: “Christ’s resurrection is not an event of the past; it contains a vital power which has permeated this world. Where all seems to be dead, signs of the resurrection suddenly spring up. It is an irresistible force...
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On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly. However dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads. Each day in our world beauty is born anew, it rises transformed through the storms of history. Values always tend to reappear under new guises,
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Often it seems that God does not exist: all around us we see persistent injustice, evil, indifference and cruelty. But it is also true that in the midst of darkness something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit.
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On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly. However dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads. Each day in our world beauty is born anew, it rises transformed through the storms of history. Values always tend to reappear under new guises,
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and human beings have arisen time after time from situations that seemed doomed. Such is the power of the resurrection, and all who evangelize are instruments of that power.” (Evangelii Gaudium)
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and human beings have arisen time after time from situations that seemed doomed. Such is the power of the resurrection, and all who evangelize are instruments of that power.” (Evangelii Gaudium)
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Beautiful.
Dear friends: Happy Easter! May the joy of the Risen Christ fill your hearts, and may the message of Easter -- love is stronger than hate, hope is stronger than despair, life is stronger than death and nothing is impossible with God -- resound within you. piped.video/watch?v=pLu9Wl0Q…
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April 4 1968. “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen.”
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Looking forward to this starting on April 15. New GroundTruth Podcast explores the life of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg thegroundtruthproject.org/ne…
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Janet McKenzie’s Images for The Way of the Cross, with reflections by Joan Chitister. orbisbooks.com/the-way-of-th…
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