Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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I'm very excited to share my new interview with @Prof_Keller about her fascinating new @OrbisBooks title: "Facing Apocalypse"--a brilliant reading of "climate, democracy, and other last chances" through the lens of the biblical Apocalypse. piped.video/watch?v=-5zku8Dn…
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"I clearly remember the first time I handled classified documents. That day in October 1969 stands out for other reasons, as it was also the first time I was allowed to handle a Xerox machine." THE PENTAGON PAPERS AFTER 50 YRS. @americamag @DanielEllsberg bit.ly/2RXdSQt
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Photo: my sister @MaryEllsberg, my father, and I (at 13) bit.ly/2RXdSQt
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Feast of St Anselm (1109) whose theory of the Atonement, based on codes of feudal honor, held sway for 1000 years. Two books from @OrbisBooks respond and provide an alternative argument better attuned to scripture, history, the suffering of the innocent and the cry of the earth.
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“Trayvon Martin... and so many others are dead, because in some white imagination, they were dangerous. And that imagination is so respected that those who kill, based on an imagined, racialized fear of Black people are rarely held accountable.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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The judgment that one Black life mattered is a step toward an America where all Black Lives Matter. Many more steps to go.
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Looking forward to this!
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"The America First Caucus will work toward an infrastructure that reflects the architectural and aesthetic value that befits the progeny of European architecture...[it] must be utilitarian as well as stunningly, classically beautiful befitting a world power and source of freedom"
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“Whoever looks at us must see Jesus in us, for charity is the virtue above all others that makes God present.” —Blessed Savina Petrilli (1923)
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Unbearably sad.
"Remarkable... Heartrending… Žbanić seeks to convey the magnitude of a historic tragedy — the worst European massacre since World War II — without turning violence into spectacle." - NPR
For Your Consideration for Best International Feature
npr.org/2021/03/16/977443822…
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Yesterday the robin shifted his base of operations to the windows on the opposite side of the house, thus casting doubt on the “attacking-his-own-reflection” theory. Now day 7 of his continuous campaign.
For those interested in the importunate robin at my kitchen door—he never actually stopped. 5 solid days of knocking on the windows every 10 secs. or so from sunrise to sunset, crying “What I do is me; for that I came.” (Hopkins)
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This anti-lynching banner was hung from the headquarters of the NAACP in Manhattan from the early 1900s until 1938.
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Ven Cornelia Connelly, founder of the Society of the Holy Child d 4/18/1879. “As you step through the muddy streets, love God with your feet; and when your hands toil, love Him with your hands; and when you teach the little children, love Him in His little ones.”
Cornelia Connelly: patron saint of women with creepy husbands. americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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I was delighted to discover @KolbeTimes (as in St Maximilian Kolbe), which is dedicated to “Faith, Arts &Justice.” Here is a new interview they did with me about saints and heroes of the moral life. piped.video/DYnCY9ZGsFw
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FD of St Benedict Joseph Labre (4/16/1783), a religious vagabond who wandered Europe visiting shrines. A kind of “holy fool” who never bathed and ate what he could find he was to all appearances a homeless beggar—except to those who bothered to know him. (Icon: Wm Hart McNichols)
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