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Bill Wylie-Kellerman has a new book with @wipfandstock coming out on Daniel Berrigan, releasing on May Day! I wrote an endorsement for it. You can get a big discount on Bill's website here: billwylie-kellermann.com/cel…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Mark your calendars for “Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg,” a free, virtual two-day conference commemorating the 50th anniversary release of Pentagon Papers, on April 30 and May 1:
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers leak, which exposed government lies about the Vietnam War, @GroundTruth and @UMassAmherst present a 2-day conference exploring whistleblowing – from @DanielEllsberg to @Snowden.
When: 4/30-5/1
RSVP: bit.ly/39MUKdE
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
On May 19, I'll be moderating a discussion of many different aspects of Dorothy Day's legacy with @RobertEllsberg, @melissann19, Catholic Workers and folks working on Day's canonization cause.
Join us! ($25/Zoom screen, proceeds to IVCUSA)
ivcusa.org/dorothy-day/
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A robin flying into the kitchen door yesterday afternoon, repeated the same hopeless effort every few seconds, despite all efforts to deter him. He continued this for 4 straight hours until dark. And now at dawn he has resumed his quest with even greater persistence. Meaning?
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I wonder if it is about the white bag hanging there. It seems as if she is considering it a nestable place trying to reach it. This site gives some solutions. An interesting one is hanging a 8x10 photo of a person's face.
wild-bird-watching.com/Cardi…
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Update: My wife finally opened the door and welcomed him in. The importunate creature stepped up and looked around, then turned and flew away. His work was done. “Knock and the door will be opened.”
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Yes, that seems to be the consensus. I liked to think that I was being visited by an angel unawares.
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“How can I find the wounds of Jesus today? I cannot see them as Thomas saw them. I find them in doing works of mercy, in giving to the body...of your injured brethren, for they are hungry, naked, humiliated, in prison, in hospital. These are the wounds of Jesus.”—Pope Francis
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Howard Thurman, preacher, theologian, mystic, d. 40 years ago on April 10 1981. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” @OrbisBooks
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My new book out today. Along with #Gandhi's writings on Jesus, Christianity, mission, and interreligious dialogue, includes reflections by Diana Eck, James Douglass, and others, plus my essay: "Without Gandhi I Would Not Be a Christian." bit.ly/2OA1yUR
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During this pandemic year Pope Francis has offered a model of compassionate leadership--standing with the victims, addressing the underlying social inequities, and pointing to the need for widespread change. Fr. Orobator's new @OrbisBooks title, "The Pope and the Pandemic."
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My father, on faith, hope, and moral courage: Daniel Ellsberg at 90 – “It’s Still Possible to Save Humanity” – theAnalysis.news theanalysis.news/interviews/…
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Straight-up white supremacist propaganda from America’s leading conservative media outlet and highest-rated host (also the person he is ranting at is an immigrant, Mark Steyn, but he’s a white immigrant so it’s fine, I guess)
Tucker Carlson gives an passionate defense of “white replacement theory”
mediamatters.org/fox-news/tu…
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German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis on April 9 1945 for his part in a conspiracy to overthrow Hitler. In a reckoning written in 1943 he wrote: “We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds: we have been drenched by many storms;
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...or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straightforward men. Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remoreseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness?
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